bcb

Bcb

Name: Bcb
Creator: Bcb

Metadata onlyLicense under review

Metadata only. This source’s license does not permit redistribution, so we catalog its metadata but do not re-serve the data. Use the provider link to obtain it under the original terms.

Coverage

Series catalogued

Temporal coverage

1943-01-01 – 2026-06-23

Licensing & provenance

License: License under review
Redistribution: Not permitted (metadata only)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted

How to cite

Banco Central do Brasil — Portal de Dados Abertos (Central Bank of Brazil Open Data Portal). Retrieved from https://dadosabertos.bcb.gov.br. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download bcb series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/bcb.html
Update cadence: monthly
Update strategy: extend by date
Storage layout: single parquet: data/clean_full/bcb/bcb.parquet (zstd), columns (series_key='{label}:{sid}', obs_date, value). ~300 curated SGS series (deduped by sid). Plus _bcb_log.txt external log.

Full description

Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) — SGS time-series system, 30,000+ series. License: Open Government Data (dadosabertos.bcb.gov.br) Source: https://dadosabertos.bcb.gov.br / https://api.bcb.gov.br/dados/serie/ No API key required. Strategy: * Curated list of ~300 key SGS series IDs covering: - FX / exchange rates (BRL/USD, BRL/EUR, ...) - Interest rates (SELIC, CDI, TR, TJLP) - Inflation (IPCA, IGP-M, IGP-DI, INPC, IPC-A) - Money supply (M1–M4, monetary base) - Credit aggregates (households, corporates, default rates) - Trade balance, current account, FX reserves - GDP (quarterly, sectoral) - Employment (unemployment, CAGED) - Government finance (primary balance, public debt) - Capital markets (B3 index, bond yields) * API: GET /dados/serie/bcdata.sgs.{id}/dados?formato=json * Date format: DD/MM/YYYY; value: "valor" field Run: python jobs/ingest_bcb.py python jobs/ingest_bcb.py --only 1,11,13522

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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}

Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-07-14 from the central registry · browse all datasets