Where can I find historical economic/financial data for the U.S. or foreign countries?

  • Workspace provides economic, stock, index, commodity, currency, and other data and downloads in Excel format.
  • CEIC Data provides access to 1.2 million macro-economic time series and statistics from over 50 countries.
  • EIU Country Data and Passport (Euromonitor) contain standardized statistics for many countries.
  • Fred, a site of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, provides U.S. and some international data historically.
  • Yahoo! Finance provides substantial U.S. stock and index histories.
If you need to retrieve data prior to the 1970's, contact us for more suggestions.