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IBISWorld API
  • Overview
    • 🚀 Getting Started
    • 📊 About IBISWorld
    • 🚦Rate Limits & Data Size
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    • ❓Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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  • How-To Guides
    • 🔁 How To: Convert ANZSIC ➜ IBISWorld Report
    • 📥 How To: Download an IBISWorld PDF Report
  • Industry
    • Risk
      • Risk Reports List
      • Recently Updated Risk Reports List
      • Full Industry Risk Report
      • Sections of Risk Report
      • Early Warning System (EWS)
    • States (US) & Provinces (Canada)
      • Industry Reports List
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    • Segment Benchmarking (US)
      • Full Segment Benchmarking Report
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    • ESG
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    • Industry Reports List
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  • Classifications
    • List of Classification System Versions
    • List of Classification System Titles and Codes
    • Classification System to IBISWorld Report Concordance
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  • Downloads
    • Download a Report
  • Business Environment Profiles
    • BED Reports List
    • Recently Updated BED Reports List
    • Full BED Report
    • Sections of BED Report
  • Company
    • Company Reports List (Australia)
    • Recently Updated Company Reports List
    • Full Company Report (Australia)
    • Sections of Company Report (Australia)
  • Procurement
    • Procurement Reports
    • Recently Updated Procurement Reports List
    • Sections of Procurement Report
  • Occupation Profiles
    • Occupation Report List
    • Recently Updated Occupation Report List
    • Full Occupation Report
    • Sections of Occupation Report
  • Schemas
    • classification_system_version
    • ibis_report_concordance
    • ibis_industry_report
    • ibis_industry_risk_report
    • ibis_bed_report
    • ibis_company_report
  1. Overview

📰 API Release Notes

Stay up to date with the latest improvements to the IBISWorld API.
This page highlights new features, fixes, and deprecations across the last 6 months.

📅 May 2026#

✨ New Data#

Added new Company data to /company/v3/ endpoints for the United States (US) and Canada (CA) — see Sections of Industry Report for additional notes.
Expanded /industry/v3/ coverage to 16 Asian markets: China (CN), Japan (JP), India (IN), South Korea (KR), Singapore (SG), Indonesia (ID), Taiwan (TW), Thailand (TH), Vietnam (VN), Malaysia (MY), Philippines (PH), Hong Kong (HK), Bangladesh (BD), Pakistan (PK), Sri Lanka (LK), and Mongolia (MN). Industry coverage varies by country — see IBISWorld's Help Center article to learn more about industry coverage in each market. The data-only release is available for the following sections:
title, definition, publicationdate, keystatistics, keyratios, keystatisticsannualchange

📅 April 2026#

🛠️ Improvements#

Extended /downloads/v3/report to support Procurement reports — clients can now retrieve PDF deliverables for ProcurementIQ reports by setting Product: "procurement" and Format: "pdf" in the request body. Supported countries: US, CA, EUR, GL. PDF is the only supported format for Procurement (Word and PowerPoint are not produced for this product). Existing Industry download behavior is unchanged.

✨ New Data#

Added the following to /procurement/v3/sections endpoint:
Price Environment — occupations — entry, median, and experienced wage rates by occupation role relevant to the market
Global Opportunity Assessment chapter (GL reports only):
globalmarketapproach — overall approach recommendation (Global / Regional / Local), strategy development trends, and strategy execution recommendation (Consolidated / Independent), with similar GL reports sharing the same approach
globalsupplierpool — supplier counts by geographic region; supports AllYears for full history
Business Requirements chapter — full set of operational procurement guidance sections:
buyingleadtime — lead times by procurement stage and purchase channel
vendorrelationship — typical vendor relationship type with value factors, risk factors, and contracting strategies
vendorqualifications — ranked supplier qualification criteria (1–5 importance) with reasoning and measurement methods
keyrfpelements — recommended RFP sections with market-specific drafting guidance
negotiationquestions — pre-built negotiation questions organized by category
keyperformanceindicators — standard KPIs with importance ratings, measurement inputs, and interpretive considerations
servicelevelagreements — SLA categories with contractual expectation guidance
keycontractclauses — standard escalation, penalty, and cancellation clause examples

📅 March 2026#

🆕 New Products#

Added Occupation Profiles (/occupation/v3/) — US occupation-level wage data across geographic hierarchies (National, State, MSA), sourced from BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. Supports compensation benchmarking, labor market analysis, and workforce planning. Four endpoints available:
/occupation/v3/reportlist — enumerate all available SOC occupation codes and titles
/occupation/v3/updatedreports — identify profiles updated within a date range for efficient cache synchronization
/occupation/v3/sections — retrieve one or more profile sections (Title, Description, ReportYear, NationalWages, StateWages, MetropolitanStatisticalAreaWages, AllWages)
/occupation/v3/fullreport — retrieve the complete occupation profile in a single payload
Added ProcurementIQ API (/procurement/v3/) — access to IBISWorld's ProcurementIQ data across 1,000+ product and service categories (US, CA, EUR, GL). Three endpoints available:
/procurement/v3/reportlist — enumerate all available Procurement reports by country
/procurement/v3/updatedreports — identify reports updated within a date range for efficient cache synchronization
/procurement/v3/sections — retrieve one or more report sections across four chapters now available:
About This Market — title, publicationdate, summary, standardcoding, whatsincluded, whatsnotincluded, relatedreports, additionalresources, commonmarketterminology, glossary
Price Environment — pricekeytakeaways, averagemarketprice, pricetrend, marketpricebreakdown, geographicmarketpricing, pricingfactors, pricingmodels, totalcostofownership, coststructure, coststructureanalysis, externaldemanddrivers, productspecialization, substitutegoods
Opportunity Assessment & Buyer Power Score — buyerpowerscore, marketdynamics, recentdevelopments, buyerpowerlevers, swot, buyerpowerscorecomponents
Supply Chain & Vendors — supplychainkeytakeaways, topsuppliers, averagevendorrisk, relatedgoods, marketshareconcentration, supplychaindynamics, esgtrends, supplierdiversity, imports, regulation

✨ New Data#

Added the following to /industry/v3/sections endpoint:
Local Government Areas (AU): lga — enterprise distribution by Local Government Area for Australian industries, with hierarchical state/territory and LGA-level breakdowns, including enterprise counts, growth rates, and population context
Valuation Multiples: valuationmultiples — industry valuation multiples (EV/Revenue, EV/EBITDA, EV/EBIT) with historical data and rolling averages, available for AU, UK, and US; US data includes segmentation by asset size

📅 September 2025#

✨ New Data#

Added additional Financial Ratios for Australia, Canada, US, UK to /industry/v3/ endpoints

📅 June 2025#

✨ New Data#

Added the following to /industry/v3/fullreport and /industry/v3/sections endpoints:
Activities: activities
Barlow Data

🛠️ Improvements#

French language capabilities added to French Industry reports (/industry/v3/ endpoints)
Word and Powerpoint download functionality added to downloads/v3/report

📅 April 2025#

🛠️ Improvements#

Currency Localization updated

📅 March 2025#

✨ New Data#

Added the following to /industry/v3/fullreport and /industry/v3/sections endpoints:
Other Companies market share: companies
Financial Ratios added to Australian reports: financialratios
Related Industries: relatedindustries, competitors, complementors, relatedinternationalindustries

🛠️ Improvements#

The following were added to the /risk/v3/ endpoints:
RiskForecastYear added to replace Year

📅 Feburary 2025#

✨ New Data#

Added all /classifications/v3/ endpoints to provide full industry classification system data sets, as well as mapping to IBISWorld reports.
Modified at 2026-05-27 19:48:05
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