dX Databases - OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is currently comprised of 34 member countries. The OECD is a prime source of comparative statistics on its member countries and major non-member countries. EconData has an agreement with the OECD to provide three of its most important comparative databases in dX format.

OECD Main Economic Indicators

OECD Main Economic Indicators is derived from the OECD Main Economic Indicators Database. Series are included at the highest frequency (monthly or quarterly) appearing in the parent printed publication and each delivery of the database includes the full run of historical data for each series, beginning as early as 1960.

The MEI database contains approximately 15,000 series for employment, unemployment and vacancies, prices and wages, industrial production, retail sales, construction, deliveries, stocks and orders, money supply, interest rates, share prices and exchange rates, national accounts aggregates, exports and imports, the balance of trade, and the current account, organized into individual country files for the OECD member countries, together with separate files covering the subject matter classifications of the printed publication.

In addition to covering all OECD member countries, the database also includes data for six major OECD non-member countries (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation and South Africa).

The database is released monthly.

OECD Economic Outlook

OECD Economic Outlook contains all of the historical and forecast time series data from OECD Economic Outlook Database. In dX format, the database provides complete time series from 1970 onwards.

The database contains over 11,000 annual and quarterly time series corresponding to those published in the printed publication OECD Economic Outlook as well as a large number of unpublished series. The series extend through a forecast horizon one year beyond the December and June publication dates.

The preliminary release of a subset of the database is in May and November each year, with the full final database release in June and December each year.

OECD Quarterly National Accounts

OECD Quarterly National Accounts contains all of the time series data from the OECD Quarterly National Accounts Database.

The database contains over 5,000 time series corresponding to those published in the printed publication, OECD Quarterly National Accounts, as well as historical sets of accounts for countries that have adopted new accounts and have not extended the times series back as far as they previously had done. The database provides information on the main national accounts for aggregates for member countries and for groups of countries, and tables of comparative statistics, starting as early as 1955.

The database is released quarterly.