Name: International Monetary Fund — Labor Statistics (LS; direct from api.imf.org) (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

4,160

Temporal coverage

1946-12-31 – 2026-05-31

Licensing & provenance

License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)
Required attribution: Source: International Monetary Fund, Labor Statistics (LS; direct from api.imf.org). 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 - Labor Statistics (LS; direct from api.imf.org). Retrieved directly from the IMF SDMX API (api.imf.org). Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved first-hand from api.imf.org (SDMX 2.1), normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema, de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet.

Access & mirrors

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

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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