International Monetary Fund — World Economic Outlook (WEO)

Name: International Monetary Fund — World Economic Outlook (WEO)
Creator: International Monetary Fund
License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)

Open · redistributedIMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)Macroeconomics

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

Coverage

Series catalogued

19,242

Temporal coverage

1800-12-31 – present

Licensing & provenance

License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)
Required attribution: Source: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (WEO) Database, https://www.imf.org
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.imf.org
Provider terms: https://www.imf.org/en/about/copyright-and-terms

How to cite

International Monetary Fund — World Economic Outlook (WEO). Retrieved from https://www.imf.org. 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_weo series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/imf_weo
Update cadence: irregular
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: single parquet — data/clean_full/imf_weo/imf_weo.parquet (verified, 588,836 rows; schema series_key, obs_date, value). Series key is '{indicator}:{country}', annual obs dated Dec 31.

Full description

IMF DataMapper — free public API, no key required. License: IMF Terms of Use (free for non-commercial research) Source: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/api/v1/ Coverage: * 132 WEO / IFS indicators: GDP growth, inflation, debt, current account, unemployment, REER, commodity prices, etc. * ~190 countries + country groups * Annual data (~1980–present per indicator) Strategy: * List all indicators from /api/v1/indicators * For each indicator: GET /api/v1/{indicator} → country × year matrix * Single Parquet: all indicators merged in long format Run: python jobs/ingest_imf_weo.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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

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