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OECD composite leading indicator (amplitude adjusted)

Monthly OECD Composite Leading Indicator (measure LI: "Composite leading indicator (CLI)"), amplitude adjusted, long term average = 100. Designed to give early signals of turning points of economic activity, for OECD members, key partners and major aggregates.

Source: OECD Composite Leading Indicators14,263 rowsUpdated: 9/21/2026
leading-indicatorbusiness-cyclemacrooecdmonthly

Quality

97

Attribution

OECD

Schema

ColumnTypeDescription
datestringObservation month (the TIME_PERIOD column of the OECD SDMX-CSV response, 'YYYY-MM'), stored as the first day of the month.
series_idstringSDMX series key (<REF_AREA>.<variant>), e.g. 'USA.CLI_AA': the unique identifier of the series in the OECD Composite Leading Indicators dataflow.
series_labelstringEconomy name from the OECD CL_AREA codelist, e.g. 'United States'.
valuefloatComposite leading indicator (OECD CLI measure LI: "Composite leading indicator (CLI)"), amplitude adjusted, long term average = 100 (ADJUSTMENT=AA, TRANSFORMATION=IX).

Sample rows

dateseries_idseries_labelvalue
1992-05-01A5M.CLI_AAMajor five Asia economies99.20813
1992-06-01A5M.CLI_AAMajor five Asia economies99.23056
1992-07-01A5M.CLI_AAMajor five Asia economies99.23523
1992-08-01A5M.CLI_AAMajor five Asia economies99.22364
1992-09-01A5M.CLI_AAMajor five Asia economies99.2042

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Use with an LLM

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

cURL

curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/oecd_cli/composite_leading_indicator_amplitude_adjusted" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/oecd_cli/composite_leading_indicator_amplitude_adjusted").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/oecd_cli/composite_leading_indicator_amplitude_adjusted

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.