Publications & Documents

Consumer Prices, OECD - Updated: 4 August 2020

OECD annual inflation picks up to 1.1% in June 2020

The Future of Business Survey

The Future of Business Survey, a partnership between Facebook, OECD, and The World Bank, is a new source of information on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Statistical Insights: Location, location, location - House price developments across and within OECD countries

Despite their importance, including for macroeconomic policymaking as the 2008-09 financial crisis well illustrated, little internationally comparable statistics exist showing how house price developments differ across regions and cities within countries. This article describes a new OECD database on national and regional house price indices that aims to fill this gap.

International Trade Pulse, OECD - Updated: July 2020

Despite a general easing in lockdown measures across the world, international trade remained close to Covid-19 lows in May 2020.

Employment situation, OECD, first quarter 2020

OECD area employment dipped in first quarter of 2020 but early evidence for second quarter points to a plunge

How far are OECD countries from achieving SDG targets for women and girls? - Applying a gender lens to measuring distance to SDG targets

Statistical Insights

The Statistical Insights is a series of articles, launched in 2016, that highlights indicators that tend to be less visible than standard headline indicators, but that provide interesting evidence for analysis ‌and policy making in some areas.

National and regional house price indices, OECD

Despite their importance, including for macroeconomic policymaking as the 2008-09 financial crisis well illustrated, little internationally comparable statistics exist showing how house price developments differ across regions and cities within countries. This is despite the common understanding that changes in house prices within countries are rarely uniform.

Composite Leading Indicators (CLI), OECD, July 2020

OECD CLIs begin to recover from crisis-lows but remain below long-term trends

Urgent action needed to stop jobs crisis becoming a social crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic is turning into a jobs crisis far worse than the 2008 crisis. Women, young people and workers on low incomes are being hit hardest, according to a new OECD report and unemployment statistics released today.