International Monetary Fund — Financial Development Index (FDI)

Name: International Monetary Fund — Financial Development Index (FDI)
Creator: International Monetary Fund
License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)

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Source: International Monetary Fund, Financial Development Index (FDI)

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

Coverage

Series catalogued

1,728

Temporal coverage

1980-01-01 – 2021-01-01

Licensing & provenance

License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)
Required attribution: Source: International Monetary Fund, Financial Development Index (FDI)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.RES:FDINDEX
Provider terms: https://www.imf.org/en/about/copyright-and-terms

How to cite

International Monetary Fund — Financial Development Index (FDI). Retrieved from https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.RES:FDINDEX. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download imf_fdi series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/imf_fdi
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Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets