Trade Growth API

How fast each economy's exports and imports are growing, on one comparable screen — real trade growth from the OECD's official Quarterly National Accounts as an API, live, no key. Trade is the external engine of an economy: exports are foreign demand for what a country makes, imports are domestic demand for what the world makes, and the gap between how fast the two are growing is the net-trade contribution to GDP — a swing factor that moves the currency and the current account. Export-led economies live and die by the export number; the OECD harmonises and seasonally adjusts the real, chain-linked-volume trade flows so the figures are genuinely comparable across countries. This API serves the two growth rates people quote — quarter-on-quarter (the latest quarter's pace) and year-on-year (versus the same quarter a year earlier) — for real exports and real imports of goods and services. The board endpoint ranks every economy by its export growth, with imports alongside, so you can see whose external demand is booming and whose is fading. The imports endpoint ranks by import growth — a read on domestic demand pulling in goods. The country endpoint gives one economy's export and import growth with a plain-language read of whether net trade is improving (exports outpacing imports) or dragging. Each reading carries its own quarter and discontinued series are excluded, so the board is genuinely current. The external-sector / trade-growth cut — distinct from the headline GDP-growth board (this isolates the trade component), the annual IMF World Economic Outlook database, and the generic multi-provider data aggregator. Figures are quarterly, in percent.