# FRED now has OECD data and grows to 140,000 data series

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**Created:** [August 4, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-now-has-oecd-data-and-grows-to-140-000-data-series/665349 "2013-08-04T20:33:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 4, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-now-has-oecd-data-and-grows-to-140-000-data-series/665349/1 "2013-08-04T20:33:38Z")

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If you didn’t already know, [FRED](http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/) is a fabulous resource presented by the St. Louis Federal Reserve. Not only do they have all manner of economic and monetary data but it is completely interactive. With the addition of 58,000 data series from the Organization for Economic Co-operation Development (OECD), it is now even more mind blowing.

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> If you read Business Insider at all, then you definitely come across charts from [FRED](https://research.stlouisfed.org/), a website run out of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, which lets you chart tens of thousands of economic data series, like the CPI, initial jobless claims, GDP (and many sub-indicators), and Non-Farm Payrolls (including detailed data on lots of industries). [We profiled the site and the people behind the site early last year](http://www.businessinsider.com/fred-2012-3).
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> Not only is there tons of data, but it’s also interactive, so you can chart one indicator against another, or quickly go from a chart that shows annual percentage changes to one that shows a sequential percentage change.