ECB Euro Area Monetary Indicators — €STR, Key Policy Rates, M1 And M3 Growth, Bank Lending And Deposit Rates, HICP, Currency In Circulation (1981–Present)
5,541 observations across 13 euro-area monetary and financial series from the European Central Bank Data Portal: the €STR overnight rate, the deposit facility and main refinancing rates at every change, annual growth of M1 and M3, headline and core HICP inflation, growth of bank loans to companies and households, new-business lending and deposit rates, and the stock of currency in circulation, 1981–2026, as of 2026-09-06. Long format with series key, name, frequency and unit on every row; monthly periods are dated to the first of the month.
Use Cases
- ECB policy-transmission analysis
- Euro-area money and credit monitoring
- Rate and inflation features for European asset models
- Teaching monetary economics with primary data
Methodology
SDMX CSV exports (detail=dataonly) of thirteen series from the EST, FM, BSI, MIR and HICP dataflows, concatenated in long format; the HICP annual rates come from the ECB's current HICP dataflow (the older ICP dataflow ends at December 2025) and currency in circulation is the Eurosystem-reported stock.
Update Schedule
Static snapshot. €STR each business day, policy rates on decision days, monetary aggregates and MFI rates monthly, HICP monthly; refresh weekly.
Attribution
Source: European Central Bank, Data Portal; reuse permitted with attribution. Datasets EST, FM, BSI, MIR and HICP.
Schema
| name | type |
|---|---|
| series_key | string |
| series_name | string |
| frequency | string |
| unit | string |
| period | string |
| date | date |
| value | number |
Sample Data
| date | unit | value | period | frequency | series_key | series_name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-09-01 | eur_millions | 338881.3956000827 | 1997-09 | monthly | BSI.M.U2.N.C.L10.X.1.Z5.0000.Z01.E | Currency in circulation (stock) |
| 1997-10-01 | eur_millions | 339105.1656781902 | 1997-10 | monthly | BSI.M.U2.N.C.L10.X.1.Z5.0000.Z01.E | Currency in circulation (stock) |
| 1997-11-01 | eur_millions | 342435.368638586 | 1997-11 | monthly | BSI.M.U2.N.C.L10.X.1.Z5.0000.Z01.E | Currency in circulation (stock) |
| 1997-12-01 | eur_millions | 354980.3122559156 | 1997-12 | monthly | BSI.M.U2.N.C.L10.X.1.Z5.0000.Z01.E | Currency in circulation (stock) |
| 1998-01-01 | eur_millions | 339890.3366140198 | 1998-01 | monthly | BSI.M.U2.N.C.L10.X.1.Z5.0000.Z01.E | Currency in circulation (stock) |
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