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Updated continuously. Includes GDP, national disposable income, saving and net lending/net borrowing as well as real disposable income for the OECD member countries and the Euro area from 1970 to latest ...
Gross domestic product (GDP) in the OECD area fell by 2.1% in the first quarter of 2009, the largest fall since OECD records began in 1960, according to preliminary estimates, and followed a fall of 2.0% ...
Unit labour costs in industry rose 1.0% quarter-on-quarter in the OECD area in the third quarter of 2008 (0.8% in second quarter) and resulting in a year-on-year growth rate of 2.6%.
The OECD Factbook eXplorer combines maps and graphs with stories, allowing users to examine time developments and interrelations between indicators. Select indicator for colours in map, for scatterplot, ...
Analysis of the current crisis tends to see a domino-like sequence of events triggered by the US sub-prime crisis in August 2007. But structural data from the real economy clearly show that the causes were not only financial.
The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 7.6% in March 2009, 0.3 percentage point higher than the previous month and 2.0 percentage points higher than a year earlier.
Consumer prices in the OECD area rose by 0.9 % in the year to March 2009, compared with 1.3% in the year to February. Month-on-month, prices rose by 0.3% in March after 0.4% in February 2009.
Discussions about the current crisis often present events in a sequence, such as that the US sub-prime crisis in August 2007 triggered a major inter-bank credit crisis, which transformed itself into a ...
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