OECD Frequently Requested Statistics

B :

Balance of Payments
Benefits & wages
Broadband
Business and Consumer Confidence Indicators

C :

Civilian Employment
Communications
Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs)
Construction - Dwellings Started and Dwelling Permits
Consumer Price Indices (CPI)

D :

E :

Earnings
Economic Outlook
Education
Employment
Exchange Rates

F :

OECD Factbook
Forecasts

G :

Ginis
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Growth rates

H :

Health
Hourly Earnings

I :

Income distribution
Industrial Production
Inflation
Information & Communication Techonologies (ICT)
Inequalities
Interest Rates

K :

L :

Labour costs
Long-term interest rates

M :

Methodology
Monetary Aggregates - Narrow/Broad Money

O :

OECD Factbook
OECD in Figures
Outlook

P :

Pensions
PISA
Population
Poverty

Prices

Productivity
Projections
Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs)
PPP-based Comparative Price Levels

R :

S :

Science & technology
Share Prices
Short-term interest rates
Social
Sources & Definitions
Standardised Unemployment Rates (SUR)

T :

Trade

U :

Unemployment Rates
Unit labour costs

Key Short-Term Indicators (monthly/quarterly data, % change: GDP, Leading Indicators, CPIs...) 
Includes most recent monthly and quarterly data on Gross Domestic Product (% change from previous), Leading indicators (% change from previous), Consumer price indices (% change from previous), Current balance, Unemployment rates and Interest rates.
Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Updated monthly according to the MEI timetable

OECD Economic Outlook No. 85, June 2009
The tables are broken down into 8 files: Demand and output; Wages, Costs, Unemployment and Inflation;  Key Supply Side Data; Saving; Fiscal Balances and Public Indebtedness; Interest Rates and Exchange Rates;  External Trade and Payments; and Other Background Data
Source: OECD Economic Outlook

OECD Factbook - Online version
Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics

OECD in Figures, 2009 Edition A supplement to the OECD Observer magazine . This publication contains data from all areas of OECD work, including: demography, health, national accounts, labour, agriculture, industry, services, transport, taxation, energy, environment, direct investment, trade, aid, education, science and technology and many other indicators.

Business and Consumer Confidence Indicators

• OECD Standardised Confidence Indicators
• Business Tendency Surveys
• Consumer Opinion Surveys

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI) 
Updated continuously

Civilian Employment: total & by industry
Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI) 
Updated continuously

Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs)
Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Updated monthly according to the MEI timetable

Communications Outlook (latest issue)

Construction

• Construction - Dwellings Started
• Construction - Dwellings Permits

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Updated continuously

Consumer Price Indices (CPI)
Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Updated continuously

Balance of Payments - Current Account
Current account balance, exports and imports of goods and services (millions $US)
Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Updated continuously

Education

• Education at a Glance 2009: OECD Indicators
• Online Education Database
• PISA 2003 database

Exchange Rates

• Real Effective Exchange Rates
• Exchange Rates

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Updated continuously

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Annual Data

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - (Billions USD, based on prices and exchange rates) - Annual table
  Source: National Accounts of OECD countries, Volume I
  Updated monthly according to the Main Economic Indicators timetable
• Data from 1970 to latest available:
  > Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for OECD member countries
  > Disposable income, saving and net lending/net borrowing for OECD member countries
  > Population and employment by main activity for OECD member countries
  > Purchasing power parities (PPPs) and exchange rates
  Source: National Accounts of OECD countries, Volume I

Quarterly Data

• Quarterly growth rates in GDP at constant prices - (Percentage changes from previous period, seasonally adjusted, at quarterly rates)
• OECD Quaterly National Accounts data - Zones in US dollars
• OECD Quarterly National Accounts data - For country members and euro area
• OECD Quarterly National Accounts data - Comparative Tables: Volume and Price Indices
  Source: Quarterly National Accounts
  Updated continuously
• Quarterly national accounts for non-member economies (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, South Africa)
  Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
  Updated continuously

Health

• Health - Key Data Projects
• Health - Key Data Series

Hourly Earnings: Manufacturing & Private sector
Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Updated continuously

Income distribution and poverty (Ginis, poverty rates...)
Source: Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries

Industrial Production
Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Updated continuously

Interest Rates
Short-term, Immediate (overnight) and Long-term interest rates
Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI) 
Updated continuously

International Trade

• World Trade: Exports and imports of goods and services
• International Trade: Exports and imports of goods.
  Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
  Updated continuously
• Monthly statistics over a time period of 10 years - Total imports and exports by partner country for all OECD countries (thousands USD), imports and exports by commodity and partner country/zone.
  Source: OECD Monthly Statistics of International Trade
• Annual statistics over a time period of 10 years  - Total imports and exports by partner country for all OECD countries (thousands USD), imports and exports by commodity and partner country/zone for Canada, Korea and Switzerland.
  Source: OECD International Trade by Commodity

Job Vacancies
Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI) 
Updated continuously

Monetary Aggregates - Narrow/Broad Money
Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI) 
Updated continuously

Total Population for OECD countries
Latest annual data

Producer Price Indices (PPI)
Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Updated continuously

Productivity: Labour productivity and multi-factor productivity (MFP)

Source: OECD Productivity database 

Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs)

• Purchasing power parities (PPPs) and exchange rates
  Source: National Accounts of OECD countries, Volume I
• PPPs and derived indices for all OECD countries
• PPP- based Comparative Price Levels (CPL)
  Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI) 
  Updated monthly according to the MEI timetable

Retail Trade
Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Updated continuously

Share Prices
Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Updated continuously

Social statistics

• Social expenditure database
• Social indicators

Unemployment statistics

• Harmonised Unemployment Rates (SURs)
• Survey based unemployment rates and levels
• Registered unemployment rates and levels

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
Updated continuously

Unit Labour Cost

• Quarterly indexes
• Annual indicators (Annual ULC, Exchange rate adjusted ULC, Labour Income Share, Labour Compensation, Labour Productivity)

Source: OECD System of Unit Labour Cost Indicators
Updated quarterly (end Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec)

Related Documentation

• OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms
• Main Economic Indicators (MEI): Online Sources and Definitions
• OECD Main Economic Indicators: Explanatory Notes
• Main Economic Indicators (MEI) - Information for Users of MEI Electronic Data Products (DB Notes)