What is DBnomics?
Economic data is a public good — we make it accessible.
Note
This is the documentation of DBnomics. The main website is available at https://db.nomics.world/.
DBnomics is a free platform that aggregates publicly available economic data from national and international statistical institutions, as well as researchers and private companies.
All data is standardized into a common format to simplify search, access, and analysis.
Features
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Broad Worldwide Coverage
Access millions of economic time series from national and international institutions through one website and a unified Web API.
The data covers population and living conditions, environment and energy, agriculture, finance, trade, and more.
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Redistribute Data As-Is
DBnomics is intentionally non-opinionated: original dataset and series codes are preserved, numerical values are never modified, and
NA(not available) values are kept.We do not reclassify datasets into our own hierarchy: each provider's category tree is shown as-is.
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Powerful Website
Browse datasets through each provider's category tree, search by keyword, or enter dataset or series IDs directly if you know them.
Filter datasets by dimensions, and visualize series as charts or tables.
Download data in various formats (e.g. CSV, Excel XLSX).
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API & Developer-Friendly Tools
Access time series directly from your work environment using the Web API and its client libraries (e.g. Python, R).
Stop spending time parsing file formats (e.g. XML, CSV, Excel), or copy-pasting data by hand.
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Daily Automatic Updates
Our daily data pipeline runs dedicated fetchers — one per provider — to collect new releases and archive every revision.
Your indicators are updated as soon as providers publish new data.
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Access To Past Revisions
Every change from providers is archived, so that past revisions of time series remain accessible.
This enables reproducible research for your project.
It also makes it possible to build real-time historical databases.
Why use DBnomics?
When you need macroeconomic data, you have to deal with a large number of providers, each with its own infrastructure and data formats. DBnomics aggregates macroeconomic data from a wide range of providers, with a unified data model and format, plus a powerful website and Web API.
With DBnomics, you can consume macroeconomic data from a single access point, with a unified UI (user interface) and API, without dealing with the technical aspects of data fetching (e.g. pagination, rate limits) and file formats (e.g. SDMX, JSON, CSV, XLSX).
Some providers distribute data files without providing a web UI to access them. DBnomics makes it possible to access those data files through its website and Web API.
Whether you are an economist, researcher, student, or data journalist, DBnomics helps you simplify data retrieval and focus on analysis.