Economy
Consumer prices, central bank rates, bond yields, growth, jobs, debt and trade for Canada, South Korea, China, Japan, the US, the Netherlands and Curaçao, with the EU as a comparison line. Add other countries with the picker. Refreshed from open sources (CBS, BLS, Statistics Canada, CBS Curaçao, BIS, OECD, IMF, World Bank, Eurostat).
Prices and rates
Consumer prices
index, 2015 average = 100 · monthlyNational CPI for the US (BLS CPI-U), Canada (Statistics Canada) and Curaçao (CBS Curaçao); BIS long series (national CPIs) for the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, China and the added countries; EU 27 is the HICP. Each source keeps its own base year; the chart divides by the 2015 average. Series that do not cover the base year are left out.
Consumer prices by category: Netherlands
index, 2015 average = 100 · monthlyHICP (Eurostat), 2015 = 100. Category definitions differ a little per source (Canada's housing is shelter; the HICP and OECD use COICOP 04, housing including utilities).
Central bank policy rates
% · monthly · BISEuro members follow the ECB. No data for Curaçao. Curaçao: the CBCS pegs the guilder to the US dollar and is not in the BIS policy rate set.
10-year government bond yields
% · monthly · OECD long-term interest ratesNo data for Curaçao.
Growth, jobs and debt
Real GDP growth
% change on the previous year · outcomes only, no forecastsIMF World Economic Outlook; CBS Curaçao (real growth, 2011→) for Curaçao.
Unemployment rate
% of the labour force · annualIMF WEO; CBS Curaçao labour force survey (2014→) for Curaçao.
Government debt
general government gross debt, % of GDP · annualIMF WEO; World Bank central government debt where the IMF has none. No data for Curaçao.
Trade openness
exports + imports of goods and services, % of GDP · annualBond and stock markets
Spreads over Germany
percentage points · 10-year yield minus the German BundUS yield curve: 10-year minus 2-year
percentage points · monthly average · below zero = invertedShare prices
index 2015 = 100 · OECD main economic indicatorsS&P 500 and NASDAQ Composite
index points · weekly averageUnited States
US real GDP and unemployment
billions of chained 2017 USD (SAAR) · unemployment %Europe: public finances and migration
Government debt
% of GDP · 2025Government balance
surplus (+) or deficit (−), % of GDP · 2025Dutch government: spending vs revenue
% of GDP · general governmentImmigration
people arriving per yearImmigration per 1,000 inhabitants
latest yearPolicy rates: BIS central bank policy rates (month end). Spreads use Eurostat's EMU convergence-criterion yields. The country picker drives the charts in the first two sections; the European and US sections keep their own fixed sets.