OECD Unemployment API

The monthly unemployment rate of every major economy on one comparable screen — the OECD harmonised unemployment rates as an API, live from the OECD's official statistics, no key. Each country measures joblessness slightly differently; the OECD harmonises them onto the same definition (the share of the labour force without work, available and actively looking) and seasonally adjusts them, so the numbers are genuinely comparable side by side. Unemployment is one of the two hard data points — with inflation — that move central banks and markets, and the monthly print, and which way it is turning, is what gets traded. The board endpoint returns the headline (15+) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate for every economy the OECD tracks (and the aggregates — the euro area, the OECD, the EU), ranked from the tightest labour market to the loosest, each with its month-on-month change and whether the rate is rising (loosening) or falling (tightening). The youth endpoint does the same for the 15-24 age group — youth unemployment runs far higher and is watched as a social and structural gauge. The country endpoint puts the headline and youth rate together for one economy with its rank and recent direction. Each reading carries its own period and discontinued series are excluded, so the board is genuinely current. The labour-market / unemployment-rate cut — distinct from the annual IMF World Economic Outlook database (which carries unemployment as a yearly figure and forecast, not the live monthly print), the inflation and bond-yield boards, and the generic multi-provider data aggregator. Figures are monthly, in percent of the labour force.