European Central Bank — Government Statistics (GST)

DatasetExecutable4/7Query nowOpen workbench Subscribe🇪🇺European

Government Statistics (GST) — official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the GST dataflow over SDMX 2.1 REST. One endpoint serves XML (SDMX-ML), CSV (?format=csvdata) and JSON (?format=jsondata); extract exactly the series you need with a key path and startPeriod / endPeriod / lastNObservations filters. Browse and chart the same series on the ECB Data Portal.

economyprices

Run verified request Dataflow structure Fetch observations (JSON)Read the docs Open source record

Data schema (30 fields)

Filterable via the API (9)

FREQREF_AREAADJUSTMENTGOVNT_REF_SECTORGOVNT_ITEM_ESAGOVNT_COUNT_SECTORGOVNT_VALUATIONGOVNT_ST_SUFFIXTIME_PERIOD

Click a field to see example values.

Field	Type	Description
FREQFrequency	dimension	3 codes (e.g. Annual, Monthly, Quarterly)
REF_AREAReference area	dimension	33 codes (e.g. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria)
ADJUSTMENTAdjustment indicator	dimension	2 codes (e.g. Neither seasonally nor working day adjusted, Working day and seasonally adjusted)
GOVNT_REF_SECTORCreditor user assets sector	dimension	38 codes (e.g. All sectors/ unspecified/ not applicable (ESA95)-NCBs, All sectors without central bank (ESA95)-NCBs, All sectors without general government (consolidation) (ESA95) - NCBs)
GOVNT_ITEM_ESAESA item - GST context	dimension	135 codes (e.g. Long-term securities other than shares, Short-term securities other than shares, Currency and deposits)
GOVNT_COUNT_SECTORDebtor resource liabil sector	dimension	25 codes (e.g. General government (ESA95)-NCBs, The institutions of the EU (ESA95)-NCBs, All sectors/ unspecified/ not applicable (ESA95)-NCBs)
GOVNT_VALUATIONValuation - GST context	dimension	9 codes (e.g. Financial flows at market value, Non-financial flows current prices, Non-financial flows chain-linked volumes at prices of the previous year)
GOVNT_ST_SUFFIXSeries variation - GST context	dimension	13 codes (e.g. Euro, irrevocable conversion rate, Percentage points, series(t)/GDP(t), Perc points, ((ser(t)-ser(t-1))/ GDP(t), euro i.c.r. based calc)
TIME_PERIODTime period or range	time	Time dimension — filter with startPeriod / endPeriod query params.
OBS_VALUEObservation value	number	The observed numeric value for each cell.
TIME_FORMATTime format code	attribute	—
BREAKS	attribute	—
COLLECTIONCollection indicator	attribute	—
DOM_SER_IDSDomestic series ids	attribute	—
PUBL_ECBSource publication (ECB only)	attribute	—
PUBL_MUSource publication (Euro area only)	attribute	—
PUBL_PUBLICSource publication (public)	attribute	—
UNIT_INDEX_BASE	attribute	—
COMPILATION	attribute	—
COVERAGE	attribute	—
DECIMALS	attribute	—
NAT_TITLENational language title	attribute	—
SOURCE_AGENCY	attribute	—
SOURCE_DETAIL	attribute	—
SOURCE_PUBPublication source	attribute	—
TITLE	attribute	—
TITLE_COMPLTitle complement	attribute	—
UNIT	attribute	—
UNIT_MULTUnit multiplier	attribute	—
OBS_STATUSObservation status	attribute	—

Schema captured from sdmx 1 month ago.

Query the data

Pick columns and a sort, then fetch a live preview straight from the source. Choose an API-filterable column (marked ▾) under “Where” to pick from its list of values.

Where=

Sort by

Sample data (5 records)

Record 1FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 6712.1,
  "ADJUSTMENT": "N",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2013",
  "GOVNT_ITEM_ESA": "BBM",
  "GOVNT_ST_SUFFIX": "E",
  "GOVNT_VALUATION": "FB",
  "GOVNT_REF_SECTOR": "B0000",
  "GOVNT_COUNT_SECTOR": "B1300"
}

Record 2FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 2.143094100289052,
  "ADJUSTMENT": "N",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2013",
  "GOVNT_ITEM_ESA": "BBM",
  "GOVNT_ST_SUFFIX": "G",
  "GOVNT_VALUATION": "FB",
  "GOVNT_REF_SECTOR": "B0000",
  "GOVNT_COUNT_SECTOR": "B1300"
}

Record 3FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 532.5,
  "ADJUSTMENT": "N",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2013",
  "GOVNT_ITEM_ESA": "BBS",
  "GOVNT_ST_SUFFIX": "E",
  "GOVNT_VALUATION": "FB",
  "GOVNT_REF_SECTOR": "B0000",
  "GOVNT_COUNT_SECTOR": "B1300"
}

Record 4FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0.17002094849658378,
  "ADJUSTMENT": "N",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2013",
  "GOVNT_ITEM_ESA": "BBS",
  "GOVNT_ST_SUFFIX": "G",
  "GOVNT_VALUATION": "FB",
  "GOVNT_REF_SECTOR": "B0000",
  "GOVNT_COUNT_SECTOR": "B1300"
}

Record 5FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0,
  "ADJUSTMENT": "N",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2013",
  "GOVNT_ITEM_ESA": "CDP",
  "GOVNT_ST_SUFFIX": "E",
  "GOVNT_VALUATION": "FB",
  "GOVNT_REF_SECTOR": "B0000",
  "GOVNT_COUNT_SECTOR": "B1300"
}

Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.

Verification Status

Using the API

Query examples

curl -s 'https://data-api.ecb.europa.eu/service/dataflow/ECB' -H 'Accept: application/vnd.sdmx.structure+xml;version=2.1'

All dataflows (datasets) published by this agency, as SDMX-ML.

Full API documentation ↗

Machine-readable & source

JSON

Embed this badge in a README or wiki — it always shows the latest verification state and quality tier.