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General Statistics
- Key Short-Term Economic Indicators
- Revisions Analysis Dataset – Infra-annual Economic Indicators
- General Statistics Archives
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  - OECD Factbook 2015/2016
  - OECD Factbook 2014
Agriculture and Fisheries
- Agricultural Outlook
- Agricultural Policy Indicators
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    - Monitoring and evaluation : Reference Tables
    - Monitoring and evaluation : Single commodity indicators
  - Producer and Consumer Support Estimates - Previous editions
- Environmental Indicators for Agriculture
  - Agri-Environmental indicators: Nutrients
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  - Environmental Indicators for Agriculture - Previous edition
    - Environmental Performance of Agriculture 2008
    - Environmental Performance of Agriculture 2013
- Fisheries and Aquaculture
  - Fisheries and Aquaculture statistics
  - Historical archive
Demography and Population
- Migration Statistics
- Population Statistics
- Africapolis
  - Africapolis
    - Country level
    - Agglomeration level
Development
- Flows by Provider
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- Flows based on individual projects (CRS)
- Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness
  - Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration
- African Economic Outlook
- Africa’s Development Dynamics
  - Africa's Development Dynamics - Statistical Annex
- Informal Economy
  - Key indicators of Informality based on Individuals and their Households (KIIbIH)
Economic Projections
- OECD Economic Outlook
- Other Economic Projections
  - OECD Weekly Tracker of economic activity
Education and Training
- Education at a Glance
- Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)
  - TALIS Indicators
- Measuring Innovation in Education
  - Part 1 - Comparing innovation in education with other sectors
    - Part 1 - Comparing innovation in education with other sectors
    - Data by level of education
  - Part 2 - Innovation as change in classrooms and schools
Environment
- Air and Climate
- Waste
- Environmental risks and health
  - Exposure to air pollution
    - Exposure to PM2.5 in countries and regions
      - Exposure to PM2.5 in countries
      - Exposure to PM2.5 in large subnational regions
  - Exposure to climate-related hazards: Extreme temperature
  - Mortality, morbidity and welfare cost from exposure to environment-related risks
- Water
  - Connection rates to wastewater treatment
    - Connection rates to wastewater treatment
    - Wastewater treatment
  - Freshwater resources
    - Freshwater resources
    - Freshwater resources
  - Generation and discharge of wastewater
  - Freshwater abstractions
  - Water use
- Material Resources
  - Material Resources
- Forest
  - Depletion and growth of forest resources in terms of volume
- Land Resources
  - Land Cover
    - Land cover in countries and regions
    - Land cover in Functional Urban Areas
      - Land cover in Functional Urban Areas
      - Land cover in Functional Urban Areas - detail
    - Land cover change in countries and regions
    - Built-up area and built-up area change in countries and regions
    - Built-up area and built-up area change in Functional Urban Areas
      - Built-up area in Functional Urban Areas
      - Built-up area change in Functional Urban Areas
    - Surface water and surface water change
      - Surface water
      - Surface water change
    - Intact Forest Landscapes
  - Land Use
    - Land use
- Biodiversity
  - Protected areas
  - Red List Index
  - Threatened species
- Mineral and Energy Resource Accounts
  - Mineral and Energy Resources
- Innovation in environment-related technologies
- Environmentally Adjusted Multifactor Productivity
  - Environmentally Adjusted Multifactor Productivity
- Environmental Expenditures and Revenues
  - Environmental protection expenditure and revenues (DISCONTINUED)
  - EPEA (Environmental Protection Expenditure Accounts)
- Environmental policy
- Agri-Environmental indicators: Nutrients
- Agri-Environmental other indicators
- Green Growth
  - Green Growth Indicators
- Sustainable Ocean Economy
  - Countries by indicator
  - Indicators by country
- Global Plastics Outlook
  - Global Plastics Outlook: Economic drivers, environmental impacts and policy options
  - Global Plastics Outlook: Policy scenarios to 2060
- Policy Indicators on Trade and Environment
Finance
- Bank Profitability Statistics
  - Income Statement and Balance Sheet
- Central Government Debt
  - Central Government Debt
- Monthly Financial Statistics
  - Monthly Monetary and Financial Statistics (MEI)
- Insurance Statistics
  - Balance sheet and income
    - Balance sheet and income
    - Total assets
  - Business written in the reporting country
  - Commissions in the reporting country
  - Destinations of investments by direct insurance or reinsurance companies
  - General insurance statistics
    - Number of insurance undertakings
    - Number of insurance employees
  - Gross claims payments
  - Gross operating expenses
  - Insurance business by domestic and foreign risks
  - Insurance business written abroad by branches
  - Insurance business written in the reporting country
  - Insurance indicators
- Pensions
- SME financing
  - Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs: An OECD Scoreboard
Globalisation
- Activity of Multinationals
- FDI statistics according to Benchmark Definition 4th Edition (BMD4)
  - FDI main aggregates - Summary
  - FDI statistics by partner country and by industry - Summary
  - FDI by country and economic activity_BMD4 and historical BMD3 series
  - FDI financial flows
    - FDI financial flows - Main aggregates
    - FDI financial flows - By partner country
    - FDI financial flows by industry BMD4
  - FDI income
  - FDI positions
    - FDI positions, main aggregates BMD4
    - FDI positions by partner country BMD4
    - FDI positions by industry BMD4
- FDI statistics according to Benchmark Definition 3rd Edition (BMD3)
- OECD FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness Index
  - OECD FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness Index
- Trade by Enterprise Characteristics
  - Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (ISIC rev3)
  - Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (ISIC rev4)
- Maritime Transport Costs
  - Maritime Transport Costs
Health
- Recent mortality trends
  - Annual mortality
  - Mortality, by week
- Health expenditure and financing
  - Gross fixed capital formation in the healthcare system
  - Health expenditure and financing
  - Input costs for healthcare providers
  - Revenues of healthcare financing schemes
  - Expenditure by disease, age and gender under the System of Health Accounts (SHA) Framework
- Health Status
- Non-Medical Determinants of Health
- Healthcare Resources
- Health Workforce Migration
- Healthcare Utilisation
- Healthcare Quality Indicators
- Pharmaceutical Market
- Long-Term Care Resources and Utilisation
- Social Protection
- Demographic References
- Economic References
Industry and Services
- Enterprise Statistics
  - Structural and Demographic Business Statistics (SDBS)
    - SDBS Business Demography Indicators (ISIC Rev. 3)
    - SDBS Business Demography Indicators (ISIC Rev. 4)
    - SDBS Structural Business Statistics (ISIC Rev. 3)
    - SDBS Structural Business Statistics (ISIC Rev. 4)
  - Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (ISIC rev3)
  - Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (ISIC rev4)
  - Regional business statistics
  - Indicators of female entrepreneurship
  - Timely Indicators of Entrepreneurship
    - Timely Indicators of Entrepreneurship (ISIC4)
    - Timely Indicators of Entrepreneurship by Enterprise Characteristics
  - Venture capital investments
  - Future of Business Survey
- Industry and Service Statistics (MEI)
  - Production and Sales (MEI)
- Structural Analysis (STAN) Databases
- Services Trade Restrictions
- Steel
  - Steelmaking Capacity
- Tourism
Information and Communication Technology
- Telecommunications Statistics
  - Broadband database
    - Broadband Database copy
    - Broadband Database
  - Telecommunications Database
- ICT Access and Usage by Households and Individuals
  - ICT Access and Usage by Households
  - ICT Access and Usage by Individuals
- ICT Access and Usage by Businesses
International Trade and Balance of Payments
- Balance of Payments (BOP)
  - Balance of Payments (BOP6)
  - International Investment Position (IIP6)
    - International Investment Position (IIP6)
    - Reserve Assets
  - Archived Balance of Payments (BOP5)
- International Balanced Trade Statistics
- International Merchandise Trade Statistics (Monthly and Quarterly)
  - Monthly International Merchandise Trade (IMTS) – Headline Series
    - International Trade
    - G20 International Trade
  - Quarterly International Trade Statistics (by partner country)
    - Quarterly International Trade Statistics
    - Quarterly International Trade Statistics - Exports
- International Trade in Services Statistics (ITSS)
  - EBOPS 2010 - ITSS by Partner Country
    - EBOPS 2010 - Trade in Services by Partner Economy
  - ITSS Archives
    - EBOPS 2002 - Trade in services by partner country
    - TIS Extra Series
- International Transport and Insurance Costs of Merchandise Trade (ITIC)
  - CIF-FOB Margins
- Merchandise Trade Price Index
  - Merchandise Trade Price Index by CPA
- Trade in Value Added
- Archived International Trade Statistics
Labour
- Earnings
  - Annual average wage growth
    - Real average annual wage growth
    - Table N2. Real wage growth of average gross annual wages per full-time equivalent employee
  - Minimum wages at current prices in NCU
  - Real minimum wages
    - Real minimum wages
    - Table R1. Real hourly minimum wages
  - Wage gap by age
    - Wage gap by age
    - Table P2. Relative earnings: Age gap
  - Average annual wages
    - Average annual wages
    - Table N1. Real average annual wages
  - Decile ratios of gross earnings
  - Hourly Earnings (MEI)
  - Minimum relative to average wages of full-time workers
    - Minimum relative to average wages of full-time workers
    - Table R2. Minimum wage relative to mean and median earnings
- Employment Protection
  - Strictness of employment protection - collective dismissals
  - Strictness of employment protection – individual and collective dismissals (regular contracts)
    - Strictness of employment protection – individual and collective dismissals (regular contracts)
    - Table U1. Strictness of employment protection – individual and collective dismissals (regular contracts)
  - Strictness of employment protection – individual dismissals (regular contracts)
  - Strictness of employment protection – temporary contracts
    - Strictness of employment protection – temporary contracts
    - Table U2. Strictness of employment protection – temporary contracts
- Labour Force Statistics
  - Annual Labour Force Statistics
    - ALFS Summary tables
    - Employment by activities and status (ALFS)
  - LFS by sex and age
  - Short-Term Statistics
    - Registered Unemployed and Job Vacancies
      - Registered Unemployed and Job Vacancies
      - Job Vacancies
    - Short-Term Labour Market Statistics
  - Full-time Part-time employment
    - FTPT employment based on a common definition
    - FTPT employment based on national definitions
    - Incidence of FTPT employment - common definition
    - Incidence of FTPT employment - national definitions
  - Involuntary part-time workers
    - Incidence of involuntary part time workers
    - Involuntary part time workers
  - Economic short-time workers
    - Economic short time workers
    - Incidence of economic short time workers
  - Permanent temporary employment
    - Employment by permanency of the job
    - Incidence of permanent employment
  - Job tenure
    - Employment by job tenure intervals - average tenure
    - Employment by job tenure intervals - frequency
    - Employment by job tenure intervals - persons
      - Employment by job tenure intervals - persons
      - Job tenure less than 1 year
  - Hours worked
  - Unemployment by duration
  - Marginal labour force
    - Incidence of marginally attached workers
    - Marginally attached workers
  - Annual Labour Force Statistics - Archives
    - ALFS Summary tables ARCHIVE
    - Employment by activities and status (ALFS) ARCHIVE
    - Population and Labour Force
- Labour Market Programmes
  - Public expenditure and participant stocks on LMP
- Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining
  - Collective bargaining coverage
  - Trade union density
- World Indicators of Skills for Employment
  - World Indicators of Skills for Employment
    - Comparative tables
    - Country tables
- ILOSTAT Database
- Job quality
  - Job quality
  - OECD Inventory of Survey Questions on the Quality of the Working Environment
- Skills for Jobs
National Accounts
- Annual National Accounts
- Quarterly National Accounts
  - Quarterly National Accounts
  - QNA – Archive before 2019 benchmark revisions
- Financial Accounts
- Annual National Accounts, Archive before 2019 benchmark revisions
  - Main aggregates, Archive before 2019 benchmark revisions
  - Detailed Tables and Simplified Accounts, Archive before 2019 benchmark revisions
  - General Government Accounts, Archive before 2019 benchmark revisions
  - Detailed Non-Financial Sector Accounts, Archive before 2019 benchmark revisions
    - 14A. Non-financial accounts by sectors, 2019 archive
- Annual National Accounts, SNA93
  - Main Aggregates, SNA93
  - Detailed Tables and Simplified Accounts, SNA93
  - General Government Accounts, SNA93
  - Detailed Non-Financial Sector Accounts, SNA93
    - 14A. Non-financial accounts by sectors, SNA93
- National Accounts at a Glance
  - National Accounts at a Glance
  - National Accounts at a Glance - 2015
  - National Accounts at a Glance - 2014
  - National Accounts at a Glance - 2013 edition
  - National Accounts at a Glance - 2011 edition
  - National Accounts at a Glance - 2010 edition
  - National Accounts at a Glance - 2009 edition
- Quarterly Public Sector Debt
  - Public Sector Debt, consolidated, nominal value
  - Public sector debt by instrument coverage
- Quarterly Sector Accounts (Financial and Non-financial)
  - Non-financial accounts by economic sector
    - Non-financial accounts by economic sector
    - Non-financial accounts by economic sector - Archive before 2019 benchmark revisions
  - Financial transactions by economic sector
  - Financial balance sheets by economic sector
- Institutional Investors Statistics
  - Archives - Institutional Investors Statistics
    - Instutional investors' assets - Annual and Quarterly - Archived
    - Institutional Investors Indicators - archived
  - Institutional Investors’ Assets and Liabilities
  - Statistical discrepancy (Institutional Investors – Financial Balance Sheets)
    - Statistical discrepancy (Institutional Investors – Financial Balance Sheets)
    - Statistical discrepancy (percentage)
  - Institutional Investors' Indicators
    - Institutional Investors' Indicators
    - Institutional Investors' Indicators - country comparison
- Households' financial and non-financial assets and liabilities
  - Archive - Households' financial and non-financial assets and liabilities
    - Households' financial and non-financial assets and liabilities - Annual and Quarterly - Archived
  - Households' financial assets and liabilities
- Financial Dashboard
  - Financial Indicators - Flows
  - Financial Indicators – Stocks
    - Financial Indicators - Stocks
    - Private sector debt
- Household Dashboard
  - Household Dashboard
    - Household Dashboard
    - Household Dashboard: cross country comparisons
Monthly Economic Indicators
- Composite Leading Indicators
  - Composite Leading Indicators (MEI)
- Business Tendency and Consumer Opinion Indicators
  - OECD Consumer Barometer
  - Business Tendency and Consumer Opinion Surveys (MEI)
- Main Economic Indicators
  - Main Economic Indicators Publication
Productivity
- Productivity and ULC – Annual, Total Economy
  - Level of GDP per capita and productivity
  - Growth in GDP per capita, productivity and ULC
- Productivity and ULC by industry, Annual
  - Productivity and ULC by main economic activity (ISIC Rev.4)
- Productivity and ULC, Total economy, Quarterly early estimates
  - Unit labour costs and labour productivity (employment based), Total economy
- Productivity Archives
  - Breakdown of Gross Domestic Product per capita in its components
  - Labour productivity levels in the total economy
  - Labour Productivity Growth
  - Capital Services
  - Multi-factor Productivity
  - Productivity by industry (ISIC Rev.3)
  - Quarterly benchmarked Unit Labour Cost indicators – By economic activity
  - Unit Labour Costs - Annual Indicators
Prices and Purchasing Power Parities
- Consumer and Producer Price Indices
- House prices and related indicators
- Purchasing Power Parities (PPP) Statistics
  - 2017 PPP Benchmark results
    - 2017 PPP results in US dollars, OECD as reference
    - 2017 PPP results in Euros, European Union as reference
  - 2014 PPP Benchmark results
    - 2014 PPP results in US dollars, OECD as reference
    - 2014 PPP results in Euros, EU28 as reference
  - 2011 PPP Benchmark results
    - 2011 PPP results in US dollars, OECD as reference
    - 2011 PPP results in Euros, European Union as reference
  - 2008 PPP Benchmark results
    - 2008 PPP results in US dollars, OECD as reference
    - 2008 PPP results in euros, European Union as reference
  - 2005 PPP Benchmark results
  - Purchasing Power Parities for GDP and related indicators
  - Monthly comparative price levels
  - Purchasing power parities : FAQs
  - PPPs and exchange rates
Public Sector, Taxation and Market Regulation
- Product Market Regulation 2018.
- Regulation in Network and Service Sectors 2018
- Government at a Glance
  - Government at a Glance - 2023 edition
  - Government at a Glance - 2021 edition
  - Government at a Glance - yearly updates
  - Government at a Glance - 2019 edition
  - Government at a Glance - Western Balkans
  - Government at a Glance - LAC countries
  - Government at a Glance - SEA countries
  - Government at a Glance - 2017 edition
  - Government at a Glance - 2015 edition
  - Government at a Glance - 2013 edition
  - Government at a Glance - 2011 edition
- Taxation
- Fiscal decentralisation
- Market Regulation
  - Economy-wide regulation
    - Product Market Regulation 2018.
    - Product Market Regulation 2013
  - Sectoral regulation
- Going for Growth 2019.
  - Going for Growth (Cut-off date : December 2018)
  - By country
Regions and Cities
- Regional Statistics
- Regional Well-Being
  - Regional Well-Being
    - Regional Well-Being
    - Regional income distribution and poverty
- Subnational government structure and finance
  - Regional Government Finance and Investment Database
  - Subnational Government Climate Finance Database
  - Subnational governments in OECD countries: key data
- City statistics
- Metropolitan areas
Science, Technology and Patents
- OECD Science Technology and Industry Outlook
  - Science Technology and Industry Outlook 2012
    - Comparative performance of national science and innovation systems
    - Key figures
    - Overview of national innovation policy mix
    - Revealed technology advantage in selected fields
    - Structural composition of BERD
  - Science Technology and Industry Outlook 2014
  - Science Technology and Innovation Outlook 2016
- Patents Statistics
- Research and Development Statistics
- R&D Tax Incentive Indicators
- Science and Technology Indicators
  - Main Science and Technology Indicators (MSTI database)
Social Protection and Well-being
- How's Life - Well-being
  - How's Life? Well-Being
- Social Protection
  - Social Benefits Recipients
    - SOCR - Detailed data
    - SOCR - Reference series
  - Social Expenditure - Aggregated data
  - Social Expenditure - Detailed data
  - Social Expenditure - Reference Series
  - Pensions at a Glance
  - ELS Pensions
- Income distribution and poverty
  - Income Distribution Database
- Wealth distribution
  - Wealth
    - Wealth
    - By country
- Benefits, Taxes and Wages
- Better Life Index
  - Better Life Index
- Gender
  - Gender, Institutions and Development Database
    - Gender, Institutions and Development Database (GID-DB) 2023
    - Social Institutions and Gender Index 2023
    - Social Institutions and Gender Index 2019
      - Social Institutions and Gender Index 2019
      - SEA
    - Gender, Institutions and Development Database (GID-DB) 2019
    - Gender, Institutions and Development Database 2014 (GID-DB)
    - Social Institutions and Gender Index 2014 (SIGI)
    - Gender, Institutions and Development Database 2012 (GID-DB)
      - Social Institutions (Data)
      - Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)
    - Gender, Institutions and Development Database 2009 (GID-DB)
  - Burkina Faso SIGI country study
    - Burkina Faso-GID
    - Burkina Faso-SIGI
  - Côte d'Ivoire SIGI country study
    - GID Côte d'Ivoire
    - SIGI Côte d'Ivoire
  - Tanzania SIGI country study
    - GID Tanzania
    - SIGI Tanzania
  - Uganda SIGI country study
    - Uganda-GID
    - Uganda-SIGI
      - Uganda-SIGI
      - Uganda - SIGI & GID
  - Entrepreneurship
  - Employment
- Time Use
  - Time Use
    - Time use
    - By country
- Family
  - Family Database
- Child Well-Being
  - Child Well-Being
- Social Protection and Well-being – Archives
Transport
- Transport Infrastructure
  - Inland transport infrastructure
  - Transport infrastructure investment and maintenance spending
- Transport Measurement
  - Freight transport
  - Passenger transport
- Transport Safety
  - Road injury crashes, fatalities and injuries
- Data from ITF/Eurostat/UNECE questionnaire
  - Detailed annual transport statistics
- Performance Indicators
  - Indicators
- Short-term indicators
  - Short-term Indicators
- IRTAD database
  - Road fatalities by age - extract from the IRTAD database
- Transport Outlook
- India Mobility Model
- Urban access framework
  - Urban access framework

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How's Life? Well-Being

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