The OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) is a group of the world's thirty biggest market economies all market economies. Collectively its member countries account for about two thirds of the world's GDP. The OECD acts as a forum for member countries to develop economic and social policies and it collects and disseminates economic data on a wide range of industrial and economic indicators.
The OECD data are considered to be accurate and reliable and provide an authoritative means to compare economic, social and industrial indicators across national boundaries. However, the databases tend to only cover a limited number of countries.
Access to the OECD databases is usually by institutional subscription. ESDS International provides free access to UK academics to most of the OECD databases.
Databases produced by the OECD:
- Agriculture
- Banking Statistics (formerly Bank Profitability)
- Economic Outlook: Statistics and Projections
- Education Statistics (formerly Education at a Glance)
- Employment and Labour Market Statistics
- Globalisation
- ITCS International Trade by Commodity
- Indicators of Industry and Services
- Institutional Investors
- Insurance
- International Development
- International Direct Investment
- International Migration
- International Trade and Competitiveness
- Main Economic Indicators
- Monthly International Trade
- National Accounts
- OECD Health Data
- Revenue
- STAN Structural Analysis
- Science, Technology and R & D
- Services
- Social Expenditure
- Statistical Compendium
- Structural and Demographic Business Statistics (formerly Structural Statistics for Industry and Services)
- Taxing Wages
- Telecommunications and Internet
