Monthly Economic Indicators provide an overview of recent international economic developments through the presentation of a wide range of short-term economic indicators which are comparable across countries and are published on a monthly basis.  Data are presented for the OECD member countries, 5 area totals (OECD-total, OECD-Europe, Major 7, Euro area, EU15) and selected non-member countries (China, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation and South Africa).

They present latest data for: National Accounts (GDP and main expenditure components); Industrial Production; Composite leading indicators; Business Tendency and Consumer Opionion Surveys; Construction (permits issued and work started); Passenger car registrations; Retail trade; Producer price indices; Consumer price indices; Hourly earnings; Standardised unemployment rates; Civilian employment; Short-term interest rates; Long-term interest rates; Share prices; Monetary aggregates; Real effective exchange rates; Exchange rates; World trade; International trade; Balance of Payments.

Methodological information on the these indicators is also available at http://stats.oecd.org/mei/.

These statistics are a subset of a broader range of statistics available in the OECD Main Economic Indicators monthly publication, for which detailed information can be found at www.oecd.org/std/mei.