Retail Sales API
How much consumers in each economy are actually spending, and which way the high street is turning — the OECD retail trade volume as an API, live from the OECD's official statistics, no key. Retail trade volume is the headline monthly read on consumer demand: it measures the real, inflation-adjusted volume of goods sold by retailers, and its year-on-year change tells you whether households are opening their wallets or pulling back. Consumer spending is the largest part of most economies, so the retail print moves markets and feeds straight into GDP nowcasts — and the latest month-on-month move is the bit traders react to first. The OECD publishes a seasonally-adjusted retail-trade-volume index for each economy; this API turns it into the numbers people use — the year-on-year and month-on-month growth of retail sales. The board endpoint ranks every economy by its year-on-year retail growth, so you can see where consumers are spending and where demand is fading. The momentum endpoint ranks by the latest month-on-month move — who is accelerating or rolling over right now. The country endpoint gives one economy's retail growth, year-on-year and month-on-month, with a plain-language read. Each reading carries its own period and discontinued series are excluded, so the board is genuinely current. The consumer-demand / retail hard-data cut — distinct from the industrial-production board (the supply side, factory output), the leading-indicator and confidence boards (soft survey data), and the generic multi-provider data aggregator. Figures are monthly, in percent.
api.oanor.com/retailsales-api
