Database of Global Economic Indicators

NOTE: June 2024—After an extensive review process, the DGEI has been resampled to more accurately reflect the evolving global economy and the availability of data. This resampling meant replacing Portugal, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Greece with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Romania and Vietnam. Hence, this month’s aggregates will be different than prior releases. Additionally, the aggregates are now available in four different aggregation schemes: U.S. trade weights, world trade weights, PPP-adjusted GDP weights and nominal GDP weights. Prior releases of the DGEI have only been reported for U.S. trade weights. An updated version of the DGEI working paper will be released soon detailing the changes to the database.

Real Economic Activity Indicators

• Real GDP
  The value of all final goods and services produced, adjusted by inflation.
• Industrial Production (IP)
  The output production in the industrial sector.
• Unemployment Rates
  The unemployment rate is the number of people who are unemployed but available for and seeking employment as a percentage of the labor force (the total number of people employed plus those unemployed).

Price Indicators

• Headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation
  Changes in the price level of a basket of goods and services purchased by households.
• Core CPI Inflation (Excluding Food and Energy)
  Changes in the price level of a basket of goods and services purchased by households, excluding food and energy.
• Producer Price Index (PPI)/Wholesale Price Index (WPI) Inflation
  Changes in the level of prices received by domestic producers for their goods and services.

Trade Indicators

• Merchandise Exports to World
  The U.S. dollar value of goods sold to the rest of the world, deflated by the U.S. CPI.
• Merchandise Imports from World
  The U.S. dollar value of goods bought from the rest of the world, deflated by the U.S. CPI.

Financial Indicators

• Nominal Exchange Rates
  The rate at which the U.S. dollar is exchanged for a unit of currency of a bundle of foreign countries.
• Real (CPI-based) Exchange Rates
  The price of the household basket of goods and services of a group of countries relative to that of the U.S., expressed in the same currency.
• Real (PPI-based) Exchange Rates
  The price received from the output produced in a group of countries relative to that of the U.S., expressed in the same currency.
• Short-Term Official/Policy Rates
  Short-term interest rates of generally three months maturity or less, percent per annum.
• Long-Term Interest Rates
  Long-term interest rates of generally 5–10 year maturities, percent per annum.