IMF World Economic Outlook Database

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/core/imf-weo/

├ README.md

https://datahub.io/core/imf-weo/_r/-/README.md

├ data/country.csv

https://datahub.io/core/imf-weo/_r/-/data/country.csv

├ data/indicators.csv

https://datahub.io/core/imf-weo/_r/-/data/indicators.csv

├ data/values.csv

https://datahub.io/core/imf-weo/_r/-/data/values.csv

└ datapackage.json

https://datahub.io/core/imf-weo/_r/-/datapackage.json

Key Files

Start with these files — they give you everything you need to understand and access the dataset.

datapackage.json— metadata & schema

https://datahub.io/core/imf-weo/_r/-/datapackage.json

README.md— documentation

https://datahub.io/core/imf-weo/_r/-/README.md

Typical Usage

1. Fetch datapackage.json to inspect schema and resources
2. Download data resources listed in datapackage.json
3. Read README.md for full context

Data Previews

indicators

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Schema

name	type	description
id	string
title	string
description	string
units	string
scale	string

values

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Schema

name	type	description
Country	string
Indicator	string
Year	integer
Value	string

Data Files

File	Description	Size	Last modified	Download
indicators		23.9 kB	26 days ago	indicators
values		6.86 MB	26 days ago	values

Files	Size	Format	Created	Updated	License	Source
2	6.88 MB	csv		over 1 year ago	Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License v1.0	IMF

IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) database. The IMF World Economic Outlook is a twice-yearly survey by IMF staff that presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Associated with the report is the World Economic Outlook Database, a country-level dataset of major macro-economic variables (GDP, Unemployment, Debt etc). It is the data from that database which is provided here.

Data

The source database is made of annual values for each country on 45 indicators since 1980. In addition the database includes the IMF projects approximately 6 years into the future.

We extract this data and normalize into 2 files:

Indicators - data/indicators.csv - the list of indicators
Values - data/values.csv - set of values for each indicator, country, year tuple.
Country - 'data/country.csv' - set of value for mapping each ISO country code, WEO country code, and CLDR English Name

Sources

Note the XLS files actual turn out to be tsv files!

Preparation

Code to extract the data from the source WEO Database is in the scripts directory.

License

This Data Package is licensed by its maintainers under the Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL).