IMF World Economic Outlook

Selected macroeconomic data series from the International Monetary Fund

Originator: International Monetary Fund

This dataset contains the latest available (currently April 2017) release of the IMF's World Economic Outlook (WEO) database. The database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups and in many individual countries. The WEO is released in April and September/October each year.

(11 columns, 8448 rows)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the dataset:

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Plot consumer price inflation for selected countries:

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DateListPlot[
Legended[#[[2]], #[[1]]] & /@ Rule @@@ RandomSample[
ResourceData["IMF World Economic Outlook"][
Select[#WEOSubjectCode == "PCPI" &]], 5][
All, {#Country, #TimeSeries} &]]

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Plot countries by general government gross debt as a percent of GDP:

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GeoRegionValuePlot[
Select[ResourceData[
"IMF World Economic Outlook"], #"SubjectDescriptor" == "General government gross debt" && #Units == "Percent of GDP" &][
All, {#Country, #TimeSeries[DateObject[{2017}]]} &], ImageSize -> Full]

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Bibliographic Citation

Wolfram Research, "IMF World Economic Outlook" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2017) https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.60176.data

License Information

http://www.imf.org/external/terms.htm

Data Resource History

Date Created: 28 August 2017

Source Metadata

Title: World Economic Outlook Database
Creator: International Monetary Fund
Date: April 2017
Source: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/01/weodata/download.aspx
Citation: International Monetary Fund, “World Economic Outlook Database”

Data Downloads

Publisher Information

Prepared for the Wolfram Data Repository By: C. Alan Joyce (Wolfram|Alpha)
Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research