government
Retrieve fiscal metrics by country—debt, deficit, expenditure, revenue, tax revenue, and trust—with date, level, and smoothing controls.
Instructions
Government fiscal metrics by country (debt, deficit, expenditure, revenue, tax revenue, trust in government). Requires countries='United States' — use comma-separated values for multiple countries. Do NOT use tickers= for this tool. Supports start_date/end_date. Most series are yearly: quarterly=true returns quarterly data only where a source has it (a note says when it does not). Supports rolling=N (moving-average smoothing) and trailing=N (trailing N-period sum, e.g. a trailing-4-quarter sum) on the raw series. level='consolidated' (default, longest history), 'general' (general government) or 'central' (central government) selects the level of government for debt, deficit, expenditure, revenue and tax revenue.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| lag | No | Number of periods to lag when computing growth rates. | |
| level | No | Level of government: 'consolidated' (longest history), 'general' (central, state and local government and social security) or 'central'. | consolidated |
| limit | No | The rows to return, like head and tail: 5 for the first five, -5 for the last five (the most recent of a time series). A table with its periods as columns (financial statements, ratios) keeps its first or last periods instead. For ETF holdings the largest (or, negative, the smallest) by weight, and for a list (e.g. news or a screener) its length. | |
| growth | No | Return period-over-period growth rates instead of absolute values. | |
| rolling | No | Rolling window size in number of periods. When set, the metric is computed over a smoothly overlapping trailing window across the full history (e.g. period='monthly' and rolling=6 gives a rolling 6-month value) instead of one value per period, or (for economics indicators) a simple moving average used to smooth the raw series. | |
| end_date | No | End of the date range in YYYY-MM-DD format. | 2026-10-27 |
| trailing | No | Trailing window size in number of periods. Sums the raw values over the trailing N periods (e.g. trailing=4 on quarterly data gives a trailing-4-quarter / TTM-style sum) instead of returning one value per period. | |
| countries | No | Country names, comma-separated or as a list, e.g. 'United States,Germany,Japan'. | |
| indicator | Yes | Name of the specific metric to calculate, one of the listed values. Required — search_metrics finds the indicator (and its tool) for a metric by name. | |
| quarterly | No | Return quarterly data instead of annual when True. | |
| start_date | No | Start of the date range in YYYY-MM-DD format. | 2021-10-28 |
| standardize | No | Return the Z-Score (standard score) instead of the raw values, i.e. how many standard deviations each value is from the mean of its own series. When combined with growth=True, the growth values are standardized instead of the raw values. | |
| show_columns | No | Comma-separated names to filter the output. For historical data use the key names visible in any response record (e.g. 'Close,Volume,Return'). For financial statements use the 'metric' field values from the response (e.g. 'Revenue,Net Income,EBITDA'). Call the tool once without this parameter to see all available names, then repeat with show_columns to reduce response size and token usage. | |
| gmdb_forecasts | No | Set to true to include the years the Global Macro Database projects (IMF World Economic Outlook, up to five years ahead); by default a yearly series ends with its last observation. |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | Yes |