Open economic data, free to download and reuse.
One CSV holds every reading of the high-frequency series on Statistics of the World whose source licences are open: commodity prices, exchange rates, US Treasury yields, consumer prices, jobs, output, trade and energy. You may copy, change, share and sell it, including in commercial work, as long as you credit the sources and us.
How you may use it
Our own work on these files (choosing and cleaning the series, codes, labels and metadata) is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0). Each reading keeps the licence of its source, named in its licence column, and the series list in datapackage.json gives the credit line for each series. When you share the data, or work made from it, credit Statistics of the World and the source, and say what you changed.
Our Terms of Service add no conditions to these files beyond the credit their licences ask for.
Suggested credit: Statistics of the World, open high-frequency series, statisticsoftheworld.com/open-data, with the sources named in the series list.
Licences in the file
| Licence (value in the licence column) | Sources |
|---|---|
| CC BY 4.0 CC-BY-4.0 | Ember; European Commission (DG ECFIN), Business and Consumer Surveys, via Eurostat; International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT; World Bank, Global Economic Prospects; World Bank, Global Economic Monitor; World Bank, Commodity Price Data (Pink Sheet) |
| Public domain (U.S. federal government works) public-domain | U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; U.S. Energy Information Administration; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Summary of Economic Projections; U.S. Department of the Treasury |
| Open Government Licence v3.0 Open Government Licence v3.0 | Office for National Statistics |
| Commission Decision 2011/833/EU EU-2011-833 | Eurostat |
Eurostat readings: Statistics of the World selected the series, countries and areas and reformatted codes, dates and status flags. Eurostat is not responsible for this republication.
What is in it, and what is not
The file covers the high-frequency series: daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly readings, plus a few annual forecast series. Series whose licences we have not confirmed as open are not in it; they stay readable on the site and through the API with their own source and attribution. The annual country indicators are not part of this file.
The files are built from our database each time you download them, so they hold the latest stored readings. Sources revise their figures, and series are added when their licences have been reviewed.