Business & Consumer Confidence API
How optimistic the firms and households of each economy are right now — the OECD Business and Consumer Confidence Indicators as an API, live from the OECD's official statistics, no key. Confidence is soft data: it comes from monthly surveys asking businesses about orders, output and expectations, and consumers about their finances and the outlook, and it moves before the hard data does, which makes it one of the most-watched early reads on demand. The OECD standardises both into amplitude-adjusted indices that oscillate around 100 — above 100 means confidence is above its long-term average (optimism), below 100 means below average (pessimism) — and the direction (rising or falling) tells you whether sentiment is improving or deteriorating. The business endpoint returns the Business Confidence Indicator (BCI) for every economy the OECD tracks (and the aggregates — G7, G20, OECD, the euro area), ranked, each with its current value, month-on-month change, optimism/pessimism reading and direction. The consumer endpoint returns the Consumer Confidence Indicator (CCI) the same way. The country endpoint puts both side by side for one economy — the firm view and the household view together, with a combined read. Discontinued series are excluded and each reading carries its own period, so the board is genuinely current. The survey-based confidence / soft-data cut — distinct from the OECD composite-leading-indicator board (a different measure built to lead GDP), from the bond-yield and inflation boards, and from the generic multi-provider data aggregator. Figures are monthly; this is the sentiment lens on the world's economies.
api.oanor.com/confidence-api
