How ECONOMY sources and verifies its data

ECONOMY is an independent aggregator of official macroeconomic and financial-markets data. We do not model, estimate or crowd-source values — every figure comes from an official publisher, is dated, and is traceable to the release it came from.

Where the data comes from

Each indicator names its source on the page. Across the platform, data is drawn from:

• World Bank — GDP, population, development & long-run macro series for 200+ economies (1960–present).
• OECD — Harmonised unemployment, CPI inflation and leading indicators for member economies.
• IMF — International Financial Statistics — reserves, monetary and external-sector data.
• BIS — Central-bank policy rates, sourced direct from the BIS statistics API.
• Eurostat — European Union harmonised economic and social statistics.
• ILOSTAT — Labour-market indicators from the International Labour Organization.
• Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) — Nepal's Current Macroeconomic & Financial Situation — GDP, inflation, remittances, reserves, BOP and monetary data.
• FENEGOSIDA — Official daily Nepal gold & silver fixing (Federation of Nepal Gold & Silver Dealers' Association).

How often it updates

Data refreshes automatically twice a day (roughly 9 AM and 9 PM Nepal time). Slow-moving annual series (World Bank, OECD) are re-checked on each run and change only when the source publishes a revision; fast-moving markets, currencies and the NRB forex fixing refresh on the intraday run. Each value carries the date of its underlying source release, not the date we fetched it.

How it is verified

Before publishing, values are calibrated against known benchmarks and checked for unit consistency and outliers. Currency and gold figures are cross-checked against the Nepal Rastra Bank reference rate and the FENEGOSIDA fixing. Where a source mirror is known to be unreliable, we read the primary source directly (for example, central-bank policy rates come straight from the BIS statistics API).

Coverage

200+ economies, 88 macroeconomic indicators and six decades of history (1960–2026), plus live markets (commodities, indexes, shares, bonds, crypto and FX), Nepal-specific NRB/NEPSE data, and daily Nepal gold & silver prices.

Attribution & corrections

When citing ECONOMY, please also name the underlying official source shown on the page. Spotted an error? Every page links back to its source so you can verify — corrections are applied on the next refresh cycle.