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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 via DBnomics; Japan — Statistics Bureau of Japan via DBnomics; United Kingdom — UK Office for National Statistics via DBnomics; Germany — Eurostat. Retrieved 2026-08-29. Everything after the dotted line is a forecast, not a record. The shaded band is the range this method has landed in four times out of five in the past. No language model produces any of these numbers.
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 via DBnomics; Germany — Eurostat. Retrieved 2026-08-29. Everything after the dotted line is a forecast, not a record. The shaded band is the range this method has landed in four times out of five in the past. No language model produces any of these numbers.
monthly · % of labour force · 8 countries · to 2026-06
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 via DBnomics. Retrieved 2026-08-29. Everything after the dotted line is a forecast, not a record. The shaded band is the range this method has landed in four times out of five in the past. No language model produces any of these numbers.
The rate each central bank sets. Germany, France and Italy are absent because they have set none of their own since 1999 — the euro area rate governs them.
%. Sources: Euro area, United States, United Kingdom, Japan — Bank for International Settlements. Retrieved 2026-08-29. Everything after the dotted line is a forecast, not a record. The shaded band is the range this method has landed in four times out of five in the past. No language model produces any of these numbers.
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. Four countries are missing because the only series on offer for them mixes actuals with projections, and a forecast has no business on a page of observations.
% of GDP. Sources: Italy, France, Euro area, Germany — Eurostat. Retrieved 2026-08-29. Everything after the dotted line is a forecast, not a record. The shaded band is the range this method has landed in four times out of five in the past. No language model produces any of these numbers.
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.