World Economic Outlook Database October 2012
World Economic Outlook
Source details
- Canonical URL
- World Economic Outlook Database October 2012
Other formats
Bibliographic details
- Authors: Country Groups
Overview
- The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is created during the biannual World Economic Outlook exercise.
- The database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups, and in many individual countries.
- The WEO is released in April and September/October each year.
Coverage and data content
- Data series available include:
- national accounts
- inflation
- unemployment rates
- balance of payments
- fiscal indicators
- trade for countries and country groups (aggregates)
- commodity prices whose data are reported by the IMF
- Temporal coverage and projections:
- Data are available from 1980 to the present.
- Projections are given for the next two years.
- Medium-term projections are available for selected indicators.
- For some countries, data are incomplete or unavailable for certain years.
- Visualization:
- World Economic Outlook on Google Public Data Explorer offers select indicators from the latest online WEO database, such as GDP growth and inflation.
Changes to the October 2012 database
- Cyprus:
- Data reflect a passive scenario based on implementation of approved policies only.
- It is assumed that the government will be able to roll over its debt and finance its deficit at a reasonable cost over the medium term and that banks will achieve adequate capitalization without government assistance.
- Country classification updates:
- Data for South Sudan are now included in the Emerging Market and Developing Economies classification and more specifically in the sub-Saharan Africa group.
- Data for San Marino are now included in the advanced economy classification.
- As in the April 2012 World Economic Outlook, data for Syria are excluded for 2011 and later due to the uncertain political situation.
- Starting with the October 2012 World Economic Outlook, the label for the Emerging and Developing Economies group is Emerging Market and Developing Economies. The member countries remain unchanged with the exception of South Sudan as a new member of the group.