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Australian Bureau of Statistics (opens in a new tab)

8 series on the site

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; the ABS logo, trade marks, microdata and third-party content excluded (abs.gov.au copyright page, read 2026-10-26)

Credit line: Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Rates of change are derived by ChartBasis from ABS data. This does not imply endorsement by the ABS.

Banco Central do Brasil (opens in a new tab)

3 series on the site

Licence: Open Database Licence (ODbL) per the Bank's open data portal: credit the source, give the ODbL notice; share-alike applies to a public derived database (read 2026-10-26)

Credit line: Source: Banco Central do Brasil. Contains information from the Banco Central do Brasil open data portal, which is made available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Bank for International Settlements (opens in a new tab)

541 series on the site

Licence: Free use if the BIS is cited; translations marked unofficial; no implied endorsement; no extra charge for the data; no investment advice (data.bis.org/help/legal, 2026-10-24)

Credit line: Source: Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Translated titles are not official BIS translations.

Bank of Canada (opens in a new tab)

3 series on the site

Licence: Free use, commercial included, if the Bank of Canada is cited; no implied endorsement; notice duty for paid services (bankofcanada.ca/terms, read 2026-10-25)

Credit line: Source: Bank of Canada

Bank of England (opens in a new tab)

1 series on the site

Licence: UK Open Government Licence v3.0, which the Bank states governs reuse of Database data (bankofengland.co.uk/legal, read 2026-10-26)

Credit line: Source: Bank of England. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

European Central Bank (opens in a new tab)

84 series on the site

Licence: Reuse permitted with acknowledgement of the ECB as source

Credit line: Source: ECB

European Central Bank (opens in a new tab)

Licence: Reuse permitted with acknowledgement of the ECB as source

Credit line: Source: ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates

Eurostat (opens in a new tab)

405 series on the site

Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Eurostat reuse policy)

Credit line: Source: Eurostat

Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) (opens in a new tab)

5 series on the site

Licence: Terms of use read by the owner on 2026-10-26: use without restriction (the page address was not recorded)

Credit line: Source: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), SIDRA.

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC) (opens in a new tab)

3 series on the site

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, the licence stated for every dataset of the open data portal's series catalogue (read 2026-10-26)

Credit line: Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC), through the open data portal of Argentina's Ministry of Economy, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Rates of change are derived by ChartBasis.

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) (opens in a new tab)

7 series on the site

Licence: INEGI terms of free use (read 2026-10-27, page undated): copy, adapt and use commercially if metadata is kept, changes are declared, no official position is implied, INEGI is credited

Credit line: Fuente: INEGI, Índice Nacional de Precios al Consumidor (INPC) 2018, Encuesta Nacional de Ocupación y Empleo (ENOE), Indicador Mensual de la Actividad Industrial (IMAI) 2018 y Producto Interno Bruto Trimestral (PIBT) 2018. Annual inflation rates (headline and core) are calculated by ChartBasis from INEGI's price indexes. This does not represent an official position of INEGI.

International Monetary Fund (opens in a new tab)

Credit line: Source: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook database (April 2026), https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO. Projections are shown unchanged.

Maddison Project Database 2023 (opens in a new tab)

330 series on the site

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (release page and dataset record, read 2026-10-26); the authors ask that the original papers be cited when the data is shown in a chart

Credit line: Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

OECD (opens in a new tab)

100 series on the site

Licence: OECD Terms and Conditions s.3 (1 July 2024, read 2026-10-28): use, adapt, distribute, commercially too, crediting the OECD; third-party ownership is checked in the dataset's metadata (agencies named)

Credit line: Source: OECD (2026), Key short-term economic indicators, https://sdmx.oecd.org. Original data: Statistics Korea, Bank of Korea, National Bureau of Statistics of China, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and Labour Bureau (India), BPS-Statistics Indonesia, INE (Chile), DANE (Colombia), INEC (Costa Rica), Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), Statistics New Zealand; GDP for the other countries is national accounts reported to the OECD. India's prices are the index for industrial workers. Colombia's production index covers manufacturing; Israel's is a proxy based on manufacturing. Chile's unemployment series was spliced by the OECD across the 2010 survey change, not by INE. Trade, current account and interest rates come from each country's customs authority, statistics office (Saudi Arabia: GASTAT) or central bank (Russia: Bank of Russia); the instrument and maturity of the rates differ by country. Seasonal adjustment and the 2015-based indices are the OECD's.

Office for National Statistics (opens in a new tab)

9 series on the site

Licence: UK Open Government Licence v3.0: commercial use if the source is acknowledged and the licence stated (ons.gov.uk/help/termsandconditions, read 2026-10-26)

Credit line: Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Reserve Bank of Australia (opens in a new tab)

4 series on the site

Licence: Free for personal or commercial use if credited 'Source: Reserve Bank of Australia [year]'; no implied endorsement; tables showing a third-party source excluded (rba.gov.au/copyright, read 2026-10-26)

Credit line: Source: Reserve Bank of Australia 2026. This does not imply any endorsement by the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Statistics Canada

6 series on the site

Licence: Statistics Canada Open Licence: commercial use if the notice is kept; derived rates marked 'Adapted from'; no implied endorsement, no logos (read 2026-10-26)

Credit line: Source: Statistics Canada, Consumer Price Index (Table 18-10-0004-01), Labour Force Survey (Table 14-10-0287-01) and Gross domestic product, expenditure-based (Table 36-10-0104-01). Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. Rates of change are adapted from Statistics Canada; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada.

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (opens in a new tab)

8 series on the site

Licence: BEA Data API terms (read 2026-10-26): a service showing the data is allowed if its notice is shown prominently and BEA data is not altered under BEA's name; 100 requests, 100 MB, 30 errors a minute

Credit line: This product uses the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Data API but is not endorsed or certified by BEA. Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. PCE inflation rates are calculated by ChartBasis from BEA price indexes.

U.S. Energy Information Administration (opens in a new tab)

3 series on the site

Licence: US federal government work, public domain; the EIA asks for the credit line, no logo and no implied endorsement (terms read 2026-10-26; the API terms are silent on commercial use)

Credit line: Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration

US Bureau of Labor Statistics (opens in a new tab)

9 series on the site

Licence: US federal government data, public domain

Credit line: Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

US Department of the Treasury (opens in a new tab)

Licence: US federal government data, public domain

Credit line: Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury

World Bank (opens in a new tab)

12,538 series on the site

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Credit line: Source: World Bank

World Bank Commodity Markets (opens in a new tab)

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Credit line: Source: World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet)

e-Stat, Statistics Bureau of Japan (opens in a new tab)

4 series on the site

Licence: Terms read 2026-10-26: commercial use permitted on terms compatible with CC BY 4.0; cite the source, say if the data was edited, show the API notice; third-party rights are the user's to check

Credit line: Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Consumer Price Index (2025 base) and Labour Force Survey, through e-Stat. Labour force figures are not seasonally adjusted. This service uses API functions from e-Stat, however its contents are not guaranteed by government.

Translations of titles and notes are provided by ChartBasis and are not official translations by any publisher. Licence summaries are ours; the publisher's own terms apply.