#unemployment

Official US economic indicators straight from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) public time-series API — no key, read live. The cpi endpoint returns the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U, all items, series CUUR0000SA0) for the latest month with the index level plus the month-on-month and year-on-year inflation rates, computed from the official series. The unemployment endpoint returns the seasonally-adjusted US unemployment rate (series LNS14000000) for the latest month plus the trailing year. The indicators endpoint returns a curated dashboard of headline US figures in one call — CPI, core CPI, the unemployment rate, the producer price index, average hourly earnings and total nonfarm employment — each with its latest value and period. The series endpoint is a thin live gateway to any BLS series by its id, returning the data points and computed changes, opening up the full BLS catalogue (prices, employment, wages, productivity). Annual-average rows are labelled and excluded from period maths. Live data from BLS, heavily cached because the public API is rate-limited. Live. 5 endpoints. This serves US national statistics; for the US dollar exchange rate or Treasury yields use an FX / Treasury API.

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Key Canadian economic indicators from the official Statistics Canada Web Data Service. Pull the Consumer Price Index, the seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate, monthly real GDP, the Bank of Canada policy rate and the national population estimate — look up a single indicator, read a full country snapshot with all of them at once, or fetch the raw time series for any Statistics Canada vector by its id (with as many recent periods as you need). Every value carries the indicator label, its unit and the exact reference period, and always resolves to the latest published observation, so there are no dates to hard-code. Built for dashboards, macro research and CAD currency or rates models that need authoritative Canadian data. Distinct from market and FX feeds, and from our OECD cross-country indicators: this surfaces official Statistics Canada figures.

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Key macroeconomic indicators for the 38 OECD member countries, sourced from the official OECD SDMX data service. Pull the harmonised unemployment rate, the consumer price index and the long-term (10-year government bond) interest rate for any member country, look up a single indicator for one country, or read a full country snapshot with all indicators at once. Every value carries the indicator label, its unit and the exact period it refers to, and always resolves to the latest published observation — no date juggling. Coverage spans Australia to the United States, with the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, France and every other OECD member in between. Built for dashboards, macro research and currency or rates models that need authoritative, comparable cross-country economic data. Distinct from market and FX feeds: this surfaces official OECD statistics.

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The monthly unemployment rate of every major economy on one comparable screen — the OECD harmonised unemployment rates as an API, live from the OECD's official statistics, no key. Each country measures joblessness slightly differently; the OECD harmonises them onto the same definition (the share of the labour force without work, available and actively looking) and seasonally adjusts them, so the numbers are genuinely comparable side by side. Unemployment is one of the two hard data points — with inflation — that move central banks and markets, and the monthly print, and which way it is turning, is what gets traded. The board endpoint returns the headline (15+) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate for every economy the OECD tracks (and the aggregates — the euro area, the OECD, the EU), ranked from the tightest labour market to the loosest, each with its month-on-month change and whether the rate is rising (loosening) or falling (tightening). The youth endpoint does the same for the 15-24 age group — youth unemployment runs far higher and is watched as a social and structural gauge. The country endpoint puts the headline and youth rate together for one economy with its rank and recent direction. Each reading carries its own period and discontinued series are excluded, so the board is genuinely current. The labour-market / unemployment-rate cut — distinct from the annual IMF World Economic Outlook database (which carries unemployment as a yearly figure and forecast, not the live monthly print), the inflation and bond-yield boards, and the generic multi-provider data aggregator. Figures are monthly, in percent of the labour force.

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