Five measures of where the world economy is

28 economies, from the statistical offices that publish them.

Where things stand today in

Consumer price inflation: 3.1% vs previous up from 2.9%above its ten-year average of 2.8
Real GDP: 1.7% vs previous up from 1.4%below its ten-year average of 1.9
Unemployment rate: 5.4% vs previous level with 5.4%about level with its ten-year average of 5.4
Central bank policy rate: 3.8% vs previous up from 3.6%above its ten-year average of 2.0
Government debt: 77.6% vs previous up from 75.1%above its ten-year average of 73.6

The middle of the economies this site covers, at each one's own latest reading — a median, so one outlier does not move it.

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Romania · Consumer price inflation

6.3%

% YoY · September 2026

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Consumer price inflation

monthly · % YoY · 28 countries · to 2026-09

How fast consumer prices are rising against the same month a year earlier. The shaded bands mark the pandemic and the energy price shock; the full history reaches back to 1955.

% YoY. Sources: United States — OECD; Japan — Statistics Bureau of Japan via DBnomics; United Kingdom — UK Office for National Statistics via DBnomics; Germany — Eurostat. Retrieved 2026-10-09. Everything after the dotted line is a forecast, not a record. The shaded band is where this method has landed half the time in the past — so half the time, outside it. No language model produces any of these numbers.

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Real GDP

quarterly · % YoY · 27 countries · to 2026-Q2

Economic output against the same quarter a year earlier, with price changes removed. The pandemic shows as a collapse and a rebound of almost equal size.

% YoY. Sources: United States, India, Japan — OECD; Germany — Eurostat. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Everything after the dotted line is a forecast, not a record. The shaded band is where this method has landed half the time in the past — so half the time, outside it. No language model produces any of these numbers.

Real GDP: forecast, countries and track record →

Unemployment rate

monthly · % of labour force · 26 countries · to 2026-09

The share of the labour force without work. It moves slowly, which is what makes a sharp turn in it worth noticing.

% of labour force. Sources: Euro area, Germany — Eurostat; United States, Japan — OECD. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Everything after the dotted line is a forecast, not a record. The shaded band is where this method has landed half the time in the past — so half the time, outside it. No language model produces any of these numbers.

Unemployment rate: forecast, countries and track record →

Central bank policy rate

monthly · % · 17 countries · to 2026-09

The rate each central bank sets. The euro-area members are absent individually because they have set none of their own since the euro — the euro area rate governs them, and their pages say so.

%. Sources: Euro area, United States, United Kingdom, Japan — Bank for International Settlements. Retrieved 2026-10-08. Everything after the dotted line is a forecast, not a record. The shaded band is where this method has landed half the time in the past — so half the time, outside it. No language model produces any of these numbers.

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Government debt

annual · % of GDP · 23 countries · to 2025

Government debt measured against annual output, at the end of the year. The euro area figures follow the Maastricht definition; the United States is the OECD's public sector debt, which values and consolidates differently and so reads higher than the ratio usually quoted for it, as do Norway, Switzerland, Canada and Australia. Five countries are missing: for four of them the only series on offer mixes actuals with projections, and a forecast has no business on a page of observations, while South Korea's stops in 2023.

% of GDP. Sources: Italy, France, Euro area, Germany — Eurostat. Retrieved 2026-09-17. Everything after the dotted line is a forecast, not a record. The shaded band is where this method has landed half the time in the past — so half the time, outside it. No language model produces any of these numbers.

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The imported projections of the ECB and the IMF, which belong beside this site's own statistical baseline rather than instead of it. The dashed lines above are that baseline; how well each method has actually done is on every indicator page.