This guide links to official government sources that provide measures of current economic activity.
Bank of Canada
Canada Business Network
Statistics Canada
- Key indicators
- The Daily including Release dates for major economic indicators
- Canada: economic and financial data (updated daily)
- Leading indicators also links to the Economic Accounts
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Global Economic Indicators (charts updated daily)
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- Economic Indicators with calendar of release dates
- Economy-wide statistics
- An extensive database searchable by industry and geography as well as economic sector
Dept. of Commerce. Economics and Statistics Administration
Joint Economic Committee (Congress)
- Monthly economic indicators (from 1995). Economic indicators from the current issue back to 1948 are made available through FRASER, the Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
Government Statistics from International Organizations
EUROSTAT
International Monetary Fund
- World Economic Outlook - which has an underlying
database - Principal Global Indicators provides comparable data for G-20 economies and economies that are not G-20 members but which have systemically important financial sectors
OECD
- Global Economic Outlook
- Economic Surveys and Country Surveillance
- External links to macroeconomic reports and data
World Bank
- Global Economic Prospects
- Global Economic Monitor (GEM) - provides daily updates of global economic developments, with coverage of developing as well as high-income economies
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