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What you’ll explore in your trial
Compare countries, track how the Consensus moves, and dive deeper into what each individual panellist expects.
Compare any economies
Line up countries and indicators side by side in seconds.
See how views shift
Track month-by-month revisions to the Consensus.
Know who’s forecasting what
Break the Consensus down to individual panellists.
Every key indicator, region and commodity
Forecasts for 198+ economies and 30+ commodities, all in one platform.
- Population
- Gross Domestic Product
- GDP per capita
- Economic Growth (% variation of GDP)
- Private Consumption
- Fixed Investment
- Industrial Production
- Retail Sales
- Unemployment
- Fiscal Balance
- Public Debt
- Inflation (variation in consumer price index)
- Policy Rate
- Short-term Interest Rate
- Long-term Bond Yield
- Exchange Rate
- Current Account Balance
- Trade Balance
- Exports
- Imports
- International Reserves
- External Debt
Last year’s best forecaster is rarely this year’s
We compared 165,172 pairs of forecaster rankings across more than 20 years of data. Rankings barely carry over from one year to the next, so betting on a single forecaster is a gamble. The Consensus takes that risk away.
Compared with the 12 panellists who submit the most forecasts. Lower is better.
How we measured this
For every indicator, country and year, each panellist and the Consensus were ranked by how close their forecast came to the actual figure. Across the 165,172 year-to-year ranking comparisons, the average correlation between one year’s ranking and the next was just 0.06. In one example, a panellist ranked 1st one year fell to 10th the next, while another rose from 16th to 1st. The Consensus scored better on average than every one of the largest panellists, and landed in the bottom quarter only 3.9% of the time.
Trusted by global planning and research teams
From strategic planning to budgeting and FX hedging, here is how clients use our Consensus Forecasts.
I recommend FocusEconomics’ reports because they have all the relevant economic information needed for business decisions, with a sound, short and focused analysis for each country.
We made reductions in research time and improved the accuracy of our estimations. Both let us take business opportunities in the markets and strengthen our skills in anticipating volatility.
The improvement in the evaluation of the market gives us greater precision in the preparation of our budget, avoiding that we fall short or above.
Plan with the Consensus, not a guess.
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