Deutsche Bundesbank

Name: Deutsche Bundesbank
Creator: Deutsche Bundesbank

Open · redistributedcustom-terms-bundesbankMoney & Banking

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

6,872

Temporal coverage

1945-01-01 – 2026-06-23

Licensing & provenance

License: custom-terms-bundesbank
Required attribution: Copyright: Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Restricted
Provider homepage: https://www.bundesbank.de
Provider terms: https://www.bundesbank.de/en/homepage/user-information/terms-of-use-642972

How to cite

Deutsche Bundesbank. Retrieved from https://www.bundesbank.de. 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 bundesbank series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/bundesbank
Update cadence: monthly
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: one parquet per flow -> data/clean_full/bundesbank/<flow>.parquet for 7 hardcoded flows (BBEX3, BBNZ1, BBDP1, BBSIS, BBFI1, BBFI3, BBBP1). Schema: series_key (format 'BBK:<flow>:<id=val:...>'), obs_date(date32), value(float64). Whole flow built in a Python list then pq.write_table (no streaming writer). _bundesbank_log.txt sidecar.

Full description

Deutsche Bundesbank SDMX REST connector — keyless open data. License: DL-DE-BY-2.0 Source: https://api.statistiken.bundesbank.de/rest/data/{flowID} No API key required. Available flows discovered via probe (catalog endpoint not supported): BBEX3 — Exchange rates (EUR vs. all currencies) ~2M obs BBNZ1 — Securities statistics BBDP1 — Balance of payments BBSIS — Stock market indices BBFI1 — Public finance / government statistics I BBFI3 — Public finance / government statistics III BBBP1 — Banking system / bank position statistics Note: API ignores startPeriod/endPeriod for XML format — returns full history. Responses can be 1+ GB. Uses streaming iterparse for memory efficiency. Run: python jobs/ingest_bundesbank.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets