📝 Description

This dataset contains over 400,000 macroeconomic events collected from global sources across more than 90 countries and regions, covering years 2020–2025. It mirrors professional economic calendars used by traders, economists, and analysts to track key economic indicators that move financial markets.

Each event includes its scheduled release time, geographical zone, currency, importance level, and actual, forecast, and previous values when available.

You can use this dataset for:

• 📈 Economic forecasting and sentiment analysis
• 💹 Financial market event-driven modeling
• 🧠 Machine learning applications on macroeconomic signals
• 🌍 Comparative studies of country-level indicators

📊 Dataset Structure

🌐 Coverage

• Zones: 90+ economies — including United States, Euro Zone, China, Japan, United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Australia, Türkiye, South Africa, and more.
• Currencies: USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, CNY, INR, and 50+ others.
• Time Period: ~2000 to 2025 (depending on data availability).
• Events Count: 409,234 records.

⚙️ Data Quality Notes

• Missing values in currency, importance, or actual columns occur mainly for minor or regional events.
• Times are reported as given in the source; some may represent local times.
• The dataset is cleaned and standardized for country and currency fields but can be further enriched with ISO country codes or UTC timestamps.

🧠 Example Use Cases

1. Market Volatility Forecasting: Use event importance and actual-vs-forecast deviations to predict short-term asset volatility.
2. Macroeconomic Trends: Track inflation or employment releases over time by country or region.
3. Event Sentiment Modeling: NLP on the event column for topic clustering (e.g., inflation vs. housing).
4. Calendar Effect Studies: Combine with asset price data (SPX, EURUSD, etc.) to measure event-driven reactions.

📦 File Info

• economic_calendar.csv

  • 409,234 rows
  • 10 columns
  • Size: ~31 MB

🏁 Tags

economics, macroeconomics, finance, forex, stock-market, forecasting, time-series, machine-learning, econometrics

🔗 Suggested License

If it’s scraped or aggregated from public calendars (like Investing.com), use: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.

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