imf_weo

Imf Weo

Name: Imf Weo
Creator: Imf Weo

Metadata onlyLicense under review

Metadata only. This source’s license does not permit redistribution, so we catalog its metadata but do not re-serve the data. Use the provider link to obtain it under the original terms.

Coverage

Series catalogued

19,242

Temporal coverage

1800-12-31 – present

Licensing & provenance

License: License under review
Redistribution: Not permitted (metadata only)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted

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.html
Update cadence: irregular
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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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-07-14 from the central registry · browse all datasets