Employment Growth API
How fast the number of people in work is growing in each economy, on one comparable screen — total employment growth from the OECD's official Quarterly National Accounts as an API, live, no key. Employment growth is the jobs number: the change in the total count of people employed, the demand-side companion to the unemployment rate. The two can move independently — employment can keep rising while the unemployment rate holds flat if the labour force is growing too — so the jobs print is watched in its own right as a read on how much hiring the real economy is doing. The OECD harmonises and seasonally adjusts the figures so they are genuinely comparable across countries. This API computes the two growth rates people quote — quarter-on-quarter (the latest quarter's pace) and year-on-year (versus the same quarter a year earlier) — from the OECD's total-employment count. The board endpoint ranks every economy by its year-on-year employment growth, so you can see where hiring is strongest and where jobs are being shed. The momentum endpoint ranks by the latest quarter-on-quarter move. The country endpoint gives one economy's employment growth with a plain-language read. Each reading carries its own quarter and discontinued series are excluded, so the board is genuinely current. The jobs / labour-demand cut — distinct from the harmonised unemployment-rate board (this is the count of people in work, not the share out of work), the leading-indicator and GDP boards, the annual IMF World Economic Outlook database, and the generic multi-provider data aggregator. Figures are quarterly, in percent.
api.oanor.com/employment-api
