Name: International Monetary Fund — Exchange rates, exchange rates (ER; direct from api.imf.org)
Creator: International Monetary Fund
License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

681

Temporal coverage

1940-01-31 – 2027-03-31

Frequencies

Annual, Monthly, Quarterly

Distinct geographies

227

Licensing & provenance

License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)
Required attribution: Source: International Monetary Fund, Exchange rates (ER). Retrieved directly from the IMF SDMX API (api.imf.org).
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.imf.org/en/data
Provider terms: https://www.imf.org/en/about/copyright-and-terms

How to cite

International Monetary Fund — Exchange Rates (ER). Retrieved directly from the IMF SDMX API (api.imf.org). Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: TABLE-grain listing: one catalogue entry per country x frequency; the CSV carries every series of the pair (all indicators and transformations) in long form, series_id column = the native store key.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download imf_er_direct series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/imf_er_direct
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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