At first glance, statistics might be difficult to understand. We have launched Statistics explained articles with the aim to provide easy to understand background information on statistical concepts and methodologies.

Would you like to automatically refresh data downloads in your Excel? 

You can create refreshable Excel worksheets with the help of the ECB Data Portal API calls in few clicks. Read our help page article to find out more.

The ECB publishes for the first time four new wage tracker indicators for the aggregate of seven participating euro area countries on the ECB Data Portal. The indicators will be published regularly in the week following monetary policy meetings, on Wednesday at 12:00. Read more in the press release and The ECB Blog post.

New details on loans granted by other financial institutions (OFIs) and information on debt securities issuance of non-financial corporations (NFCs) via financing conduits is now available as part of the quarterly sector accounts data set. Financing conduits are OFIs that raise funds by issuing debt securities to be used by their parent corporation. More information in the press release.

New information on a separate breakdown for special purpose entities (SPEs) in euro area balance of payments and international investment position statistics is now available. More information in the press release.

New experimental statistics offer information on the distribution of wealth across household wealth deciles, housing and working status, including indicators of inequality and household debt. More information in the press release.

New statistical data on the composition of government debt in the euro area is now available. With these new breakdowns the Government Finance Statistics (GFS) dataset now also provide information on type of funding and creditor sectors. You can find the data in an interactive report in the “Publications” section.

Payments statistics data collected under the amending Regulation ECB/2020/59 published for the first time. Semi-annual data for 2022 and quarterly data from Q1-2022 until Q2-2023 are now available. More information here: Press release, Data in the ECB Data Portal and Interactive dashboards.

Do you want to get familiar with the new ECB Data Portal? New learning videos are available to guide you through the main features and functionalities of the ECB Data Portal.

Employment national accounts data (ENA) will be merged into the Main aggregates national accounts dataset (MNA) as of 11 September 2023. Thereafter the ENA dataset will be discontinued.

Registrations of commercial vehicles will not be updated until further notice. The reporting frequency will change from monthly to quarterly.

The SDW web services API are repointed to the ECB Data Portal API (https://data-api.ecb.europa.eu) as of EDP official go-live. API request syntax will remain unchanged, as data structures and codifications remain the same. User requests are automatically redirected for at least a year from SDW API to the new address.

As of the release of January-2023 data, seasonally adjusted time series for passenger car registration data (STS) will only be provided for the euro area. Calendar-adjusted series will be discontinued entirely.

Seasonally adjusted data of the euro area HICP flash estimate could not be produced, because the set of required input information is incomplete, as always with flash releases in January.

Croatia adopted the euro on 1 January 2023. Unless otherwise indicated, all time series including observations for January 2023, the first quarter of 2023 or 2023 reflect the euro area including Croatia for the whole time series. 

The ECB releases for the first time statistics on insurance corporations’ written premiums, incurred claims and acquisition expenses. The data are annual and are available from 2017. For the euro area aggregate data, a breakdown by type of insurer (reinsurance, life, non-life and composite) is available.