Datasets

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union, based in Luxembourg and operating since 1953. Its role is to produce statistics that are comparable across member states, which is what makes a single European reading possible rather than 27 national ones computed differently. Eurostat publishes through a free dissemination API that requires no key and no registration.

QuantConnect processes and caches these indicators so they reach your algorithm on each indicator's publication date rather than at the close of the period it measures, which is what keeps a backtest from reading a figure before it existed.