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Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index: Current Price Adjusted GDP (GEPUCURRENT)

Observation:

Feb 2024: 198.08891 (+ more)   Updated: 8:01 AM CDT
Feb 2024:  198.08891  
Jan 2024:  229.24578  
Dec 2023:  255.88418  
Nov 2023:  246.87677  
Oct 2023:  226.10566  
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Units:

Index,
Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:

Monthly

NOTES

Source: Baker, Scott R.

Source: Bloom, Nick

Source: Davis, Stephen J.

Release: Economic Policy Uncertainty  

Units:  Index, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Monthly

Notes:

The Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is a GDP-weighted average of national EPU indices for 20 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States..

For additional details, including an analysis of the performance of the model, see Baker, Scott, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis (2016), "Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty"

Suggested Citation:

Baker, Scott R., Bloom, Nick and Davis, Stephen J., Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index: Current Price Adjusted GDP [GEPUCURRENT], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GEPUCURRENT, March 18, 2024.

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