# Trading Economics API: Get country economic overview

> Returns seven key economic indicators for a country from its public Trading Economics overview: GDP growth rate, inflation rate, interest rate, unemployment rate, government debt to GDP, currency and stock market. Indicators absent from the overview are null; the US dollar index is not reported as a USD exchange rate.

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- Page: https://fous.com/methods/tradingeconomics.com/get-country-overview
- Method: `tradingeconomics.com/get_country_overview`, version 1
- Website: tradingeconomics.com
- Returns: country, overview page, indicator name, latest and previous value, unit, reference period, indicator page
- Effect: read (it gets data and changes nothing)
- Sign-in: none needed
- Cost: 1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free
- Verified: Nov 2, 2026

## Inputs

| Field | Type | Required | In the run below | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `country` | string | yes | `"United States"` | Country name, for example Brazil. |

## Output

From a run on Oct 31, 2026, shortened. Its input:

```json
{
  "country": "United States"
}
```

Its output:

```json
{
  "country": "United States",
  "page_url": "https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/indicators",
  "indicators": [
    {
      "unit": "percent",
      "page_url": "https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth",
      "latest_value": 1.5,
      "indicator_name": "GDP Growth Rate",
      "previous_value": 2.1,
      "reference_period": "Jun/26"
    },
    {
      "unit": "percent",
      "page_url": "https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi",
      "latest_value": 3.4,
      "indicator_name": "Inflation Rate",
      "previous_value": 3.4,
      "reference_period": "Aug/26"
    },
    {
      "unit": "percent",
      "page_url": "https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate",
      "latest_value": 4,
      "indicator_name": "Interest Rate",
      "previous_value": 3.75,
      "reference_period": "Sep/26"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Run it

From code, with a Fous API key in `FOUS_API_KEY`; the answer's `data` holds the output:

```bash
curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"method":"tradingeconomics.com/get_country_overview","input":{"country":"United States"}}'
```

From an AI agent connected to the Fous MCP server: its `run` with the same method and input. To connect one, give it `set up https://fous.com/SKILL.md`.

## Ask your agent

- What are Turkey's current inflation rate, central bank interest rate and unemployment rate, along with the previous readings?
- Pull the latest macro snapshot for Indonesia from Trading Economics: GDP growth, inflation, policy rate, jobless rate, debt-to-GDP, currency and stock index.
- I need a quick economic overview of South Africa — GDP growth, government debt as a share of GDP, and how the rand and the main stock market are doing.
- Check tradingeconomics.com for Germany's key indicators and tell me the reference period for each one.
- Give me Mexico's headline economic numbers: latest vs. prior GDP growth, CPI inflation, interest rate, unemployment, public debt ratio, peso exchange rate and stock market level.

## Input schema

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "country"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "country": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "Brazil"
      ],
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Country name, for example Brazil."
    }
  }
}
```

## Output schema

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "country",
    "page_url",
    "indicators"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "country": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Country name used on Trading Economics."
    },
    "page_url": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Country overview page."
    },
    "indicators": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "indicator_name",
          "latest_value",
          "previous_value",
          "unit",
          "reference_period",
          "page_url"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "unit": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "page_url": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "latest_value": {
            "type": [
              "number",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "indicator_name": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "previous_value": {
            "type": [
              "number",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "reference_period": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": false
      },
      "description": "Seven selected indicators from the country overview."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
```

## See more

- [Trading Economics API: List countries by indicator](https://fous.com/methods/tradingeconomics.com/list-countries-by-indicator.md): Compares the latest reported value of an economic indicator across countries in a region, highest first. World includes all listed countries; Australia uses the Oceania region.
- [Trading Economics API: Get commodity prices](https://fous.com/methods/tradingeconomics.com/get-commodity-prices.md): Gets current commodity prices and price movements from the Trading Economics commodities page, in the page's group order; filter by a commodity name, slug, symbol or group (e.g. copper, energy), or leave blank for all groups including Electricity.
- [FRED API: Get economic indicator](https://fous.com/methods/fred.stlouisfed.org/get-economic-indicator.md): Gets a public FRED economic series by plain name or series ID, with its observations, latest value and source details.
- [European Union API: Get Eurostat statistic for a country](https://fous.com/methods/ec.europa.eu/get-statistic.md): Looks up an official Eurostat statistic for an EU or EEA country and the EU27 figure for the same period. Quarterly and half-yearly series return the reporting period that contains a requested month.
- [World Bank API: Get country statistic](https://fous.com/methods/data.worldbank.org/get-country-statistic.md): Looks up a World Bank statistic for a country and returns its annual values and latest value for the selected years.
- [IMF API: Get economic forecast](https://fous.com/methods/imf.org/get-economic-forecast.md): Gets World Economic Outlook figures for a country or region by year, labelled as actual or forecast. Measures the IMF does not publish for a year are null.
- [Investing.com API: Get economic calendar](https://fous.com/methods/investing.com/get-economic-calendar.md): Lists scheduled and recent economic releases from the Investing.com economic calendar for a date range (up to 31 days, default this week), countries and importance, with actual, forecast and previous values as displayed, in the requested time zone.
- [European Union API: Get key interest rates](https://fous.com/methods/ecb.europa.eu/get-key-interest-rates.md): Returns the ECB's current deposit facility, main refinancing operations and marginal lending facility rates with their effective date. Optionally includes earlier rate changes, newest first.
- [All Trading Economics methods](https://fous.com/methods/tradingeconomics.com.md)