OECD

1. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

OECD

abbreviation for

1. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; an association of 34 nations to promote growth and trade, set up in 1961 to supersede the OEEC

Example Sentences

The most recent numbers place it as the seventh-most unequal among 35 OECD states.

From The Daily Beast

(Most of the data that follows comes from the 2012 OECD report “Closing the Gender Gap”).

From The Daily Beast

According to the OECD, 20 countries have higher high school graduation rates than the United States.

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A similar pattern emerges from OECD data covering 25 industrialized countries from 2001 to 2010.

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The US is below the OECD average, whereas Finland is above, as is The Netherlands.

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