EU and NL Economic Indicators

Pull inflation, unemployment, labour cost, GDP growth and minimum wages for EU countries, plus the Dutch CPI, unemployment rate, GDP and contractual wages. Each figure comes back as one row: indicator, country, period, value, unit and source.

Not legal or investment advice; general information only.

Who it is for

Analysts, finance teams and operators who want a small, repeatable table of headline figures for a dashboard, a board pack or a monthly check.

What you get

• HICP annual inflation, the unemployment rate, labour cost, real GDP growth and the monthly minimum wage.
• Dutch CPI inflation, the Dutch unemployment rate (ages 15 to 75), Dutch GDP growth and the change in contractual wages.
• One row per indicator, country and period. The unit and the source are on the row.
• A country list, a start and end period, and a frequency. Native frequency keeps each series as it is published.
• EU and euro area totals when you ask for EU or EA.
• A clear note in the run summary when a source does not respond. Figures from the source that did respond are still saved.

These are national headline totals. The Dutch unemployment row is the seasonally adjusted rate for ages 15 to 75, not a breakdown by age or sex. HICP and the Dutch CPI are different indexes. The source field tells you which one you have.

Tutorial

1. Leave Indicators on HICP and unemployment, or add GDP, labour cost, the minimum wage, or the Dutch series.
2. Set Countries to the markets you follow, for example NL and DE. Leave the list empty for all 27 member states. Add EU or EA for the totals. Greece is GR.
3. Leave Frequency on native. Choose monthly or quarterly only when you want to drop series that are published on another rhythm. Skipped series are named in the summary.
4. Leave Start period and End period empty to keep the latest periods (Latest periods, default 3). The form starts at 1. Or set a range, such as 2025-01 to 2026-09, or 2025-Q1 to 2026-Q2.
5. Run the Actor. The dataset has one row per figure. The OUTPUT record says how many rows were saved and whether anything was skipped or unavailable.
6. Schedule a task if you want this on the first working day of the month. Rows that were not saved are not charged.

A default run, HICP and unemployment for all member states and 3 periods, is 162 rows. See Pricing.

Example input

{
  "indicators": ["hicp", "unemployment", "cpiNl", "unemploymentNl"],
  "countries": ["NL"],
  "startPeriod": "2026-01",
  "endPeriod": "2026-09",
  "maxRows": 200
}

Example output

{
  "indicator": "hicp",
  "indicatorName": "HICP annual inflation",
  "country": "NL",
  "countryName": "Netherlands",
  "period": "2026-09",
  "frequency": "M",
  "value": 3,
  "unit": "percent",
  "unitDetail": "Annual rate of change, all items",
  "adjustment": "none",
  "source": "Eurostat"
}

{
  "indicator": "unemploymentNl",
  "indicatorName": "Dutch unemployment rate",
  "country": "NL",
  "countryName": "Netherlands",
  "period": "2026-09",
  "frequency": "M",
  "value": 4,
  "unit": "percent",
  "unitDetail": "Unemployment rate, ages 15 to 75",
  "adjustment": "seasonally adjusted",
  "source": "CBS"
}

Periods look like 2026-09 for a month, 2026-Q2 for a quarter and 2026-S2 for a half year. A flag of provisional means the publisher still marks that figure as preliminary. Missing periods are left out. They are not filled in.

Pricing

You pay a small fee when the run starts, then a fee for each observation that is saved. One observation is one indicator, one country and one period.

What	Price
Run start	$0.00005
Observation	$0.002

Skipped series, missing periods, and rows past Max rows are not charged. If a source does not respond, you are not charged for figures it did not save.

Examples

• The defaults, HICP and unemployment, all 27 member states, 3 months: 162 × $0.002 = $0.324, plus the $0.00005 start fee.
• The form, HICP and unemployment, two countries, 1 month: 4 × $0.002 = $0.008, plus the $0.00005 start fee.
• Netherlands, HICP, unemployment, Dutch CPI and Dutch unemployment, 12 months: 48 × $0.002 = $0.096, plus the start fee.
• One country, 8 quarters of GDP: 8 × $0.002 = $0.016, plus the start fee.
• A run that hits the default cap of 500 rows: 500 × $0.002 = $1.00, plus the start fee.
• A run that saves nothing: $0.00005.

Use Max rows and Apify's maximum cost per run to cap a single run. The pricing tab on the store is the price you are charged if it ever differs.

Scheduling and integrations

Save a task and schedule it monthly. Keep the same countries and indicators so each file has the same shape. The dataset can go to Google Sheets, Slack, email, Make or Zapier, or you can read it from the Apify API. The rows are small enough to pass to an AI agent over MCP.

No personal data

This Actor does not collect personal data.

• It reads published national totals only. It does not request age, sex or regional splits, and it does not request person-level records.
• Raw responses are not stored.
• Country names in the dataset come from a fixed list, not from free text in the response.
• Logs and error text do not include the address that was called.

FAQ

Why do the EU unemployment rate and the Dutch one differ? They are different measures. The EU row is the harmonised rate. The Dutch row is the national rate for ages 15 to 75. Both can sit in the same dataset. Use the source field.

What is HICP, next to the Dutch CPI? HICP is the EU consumer price measure, as an annual rate of change. The Dutch CPI is the national consumer price index, also as an annual change. They are not the same index.

Why is a series missing? It may be published on another frequency. A monthly request skips quarterly GDP and says so in the summary. A country with no statutory minimum wage has no minimum wage row. A source that does not respond is named in the summary, and the other series are still saved.

Where do the figures come from? EU series are published by Eurostat. Dutch series are published by Statistics Netherlands (CBS). This Actor is not affiliated with either institution. Figures can be revised. A provisional flag is kept when the publisher sets one.

Next additions

• Government deficit, retail trade and industrial production, in the same row shape.
• A tick box for the EU and euro area totals, next to the country list.
• A comparison with the previous run, so a schedule can flag a move in inflation or unemployment.
• Annual figures beside the monthly and quarterly headlines.

Feedback

Missing a series or a country? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.