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Global Economic Index

National Economic Index

Data sources

Every number on this site comes from a public, primary or official source. Here is where each kind of data comes from.

Last updated October 20, 2026

Sources

The backbone of US coverage, aggregating series published by the BLS, BEA, Federal Reserve Board, US Treasury, Census Bureau and Department of Labor.
Used for: US inflation, jobs, GDP, housing, Treasury yields, credit spreads, the release calendar, and selected series for other economies.
IMF statistics retrieved through DBnomics, a free public aggregator of official statistics.
Used for: GDP, consumer prices, unemployment and other macro series for most economies outside the US.
Central-bank and property-price statistics compiled by the BIS.
Used for: Policy rates and residential property prices.
Statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Used for: Supplementary series where IMF or BIS coverage is missing.
Market prices for instruments that FRED doesn’t carry.
Used for: National equity indices, S&P 500 sector ETFs, stock quotes and search for My Stocks. Quotes may be delayed.
The ONS labour-market API.
Used for: UK regional unemployment for the UK map.
The published FOMC meeting calendar.
Used for: Upcoming Federal Reserve rate-decision dates.
Public RSS feeds from CNBC, MarketWatch, the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
Used for: Headlines on the News tab and Brief. Each headline links to the original publisher.

Derived figures

Some figures are computed here from the sources above rather than published by anyone: the composite health score, the recession signals, year-over-year changes, and every figure in the Global view, which are medians across the economies we track. How each one is calculated is documented on the methodology page.

Series IDs

Every indicator shows the ID of the series it comes from (for example UNRATE on FRED), so you can look up the original data and its revision history yourself.

Attribution

FRED® is a registered trademark of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. This site is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the IMF, the BIS, the OECD, Yahoo, the ONS or any other data provider. Data remains subject to each provider's own terms of use.