Data

Long-run economic and energy data for the UK. Open, free and citable. Every series carries its provenance and its licence.

Categories

CategoryUnitsSeries FromData vintage
Government bond yieldspercent11703-01-012026-07-16
UK electricity generationGWh21920-01-012026-07-21
Sterling exchange rateUS dollars per pound11791-01-012026-07-01
UK real GDPmillions of chained 2013 British pounds21700-01-012017-06-09
UK house pricesindex Jan 2015=10011845-01-012018-03-12
UK consumer price inflationpercent11600-01-012025-05-15
UK money supplymillions of British pounds41833-01-012018-03-12
Crude oil priceUS dollars per barrel21861-01-012026-07-08
UK population and employmentthousands of persons31600-01-012018-11-02
UK consumer price indexindex 2015=10011600-01-012025-05-15
UK labour productivityindex 2013=10011856-01-012018-03-12
Interest ratespercent21694-11-012026-07-16
UK unemployment ratepercent11760-01-012026-07-16
UK average weekly earningsBritish pounds per week21600-01-012018-09-20
UK wholesale pricesindex 2010=10011661-01-012018-09-20

API

No key, no sign-up. Start at the catalogue and follow the paths it gives. They are the same URLs this site uses.

curl https://evresearch.co.uk/v1/catalog.json
curl https://evresearch.co.uk/v1/composite/rates.json
curl https://evresearch.co.uk/v1/series/uk-bank-rate.json
curl https://evresearch.co.uk/v1/csv/uk-bank-rate.csv

Each category also has a figure for papers, as /v1/figures/<category>.pdf, .svg and .png at 300 dpi.

Full API reference: response shapes, provenance fields, licences and how to cite.