FRED Economic Data
Get economic time series from the St. Louis Fed's FRED and ALFRED datasets - access inflation, GDP, unemployment, interest rates, exchange rates, and vintage (historical) revisions for analysis and research.
Pull authoritative macroeconomic data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis into Databar with the FRED Economic Data API. Access over 800,000 U.S. and international time series - including CPI, GDP, unemployment, interest rates, housing, and trade - to enrich records, dashboards, reports, forecasts, and segmentation.
Key benefits
- Large catalog - over 800,000 economic series covering inflation, GDP, rates, employment, and more.
- Always current - fetch the latest observations or schedule automated updates to keep datasets fresh.
- Trusted source - data comes directly from the St. Louis Fed for reliable, official economic measures.
- Historical depth - long-run series for backtesting and model training.
- Flexible formats - time series available in JSON or CSV for easy integration with reports and analytics.
Common use cases
- Market and industry analysis - combine macro indicators with internal metrics to spot trends and context.
- Customer scoring and segmentation - enrich account records with regional or national economic metrics to refine targeting.
- Reporting and dashboards - surface CPI, GDP, or rate movements alongside KPIs to explain performance shifts.
- Forecasting and research - use historical series for model training, backtesting, and scenario analysis.
- Monitoring and alerts - trigger notifications when key indicators move beyond thresholds.
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Connect the FRED data source in Databar, choose the series you need, set your update frequency, and map series to fields or dashboards.
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