World Economic Outlook Database, April 2018
World Economic Outlook
Source details
- Canonical URL
- World Economic Outlook Database, April 2018
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Overview and purpose
- The WEO database is created during the biannual World Economic Outlook (WEO) 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.
Data coverage and series
- Use the database to find data on national accounts, inflation, unemployment rates, balance of payments, fiscal indicators, trade for countries and country groups (aggregates), and commodity prices whose data are reported by the IMF.
- 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.
Country-level GDP update guidance
- For the latest GDP data check the "Projected % Change" in individual country At A Glance sections for:
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- France
- Germany
- India
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Nigeria
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa
- Spain
- United Kingdom
- United States
Formats and technical notes
- The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is available in SDMX format from the Entire Dataset.
- For more information about SDMX, please visit SDMX.org.
Changes in the April 2018 database
- In the April 2018 WEO, there has been a similar exercise as of October 2017 to improve the net debt data to bring the data into better alignment with the definition of net debt in the IMF GFS Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014).