World Economic Outlook Database, April 2022

World Economic Outlook

Source details

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is created during the biannual World Economic Outlook exercise and contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report.
The WEO report 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 types available:
- national accounts, inflation, unemployment rates, balance of payments, fiscal indicators, trade for countries and country groups (aggregates), and commodity prices reported by the IMF.
Temporal coverage:
- Data are available from 1980 to the present, and projections are given for the next two years.
- Medium-term projections are available for selected indicators.
Format:
- The World Economic Outlook database is available in SDMX format from the Entire Dataset page.
- For more information about SDMX, users are directed to SDMX.org.

Country-specific publication exclusions and inclusions:
- Ecuador: fiscal sector projections are excluded from publication for 2022–27 because of ongoing program review discussions.
- Ethiopia: forecast data, which were previously omitted due to an unusually high degree of uncertainty, are now included.
- Fiji: fiscal data and forecasts are now presented on a fiscal year basis.
- Tunisia: projections are excluded from publication for 2023–27 because of ongoing technical discussions pending potential program negotiations.
- Ukraine: all projections for 2022–27 except Real GDP are omitted due to an unusually high degree of uncertainty. Real GDP is projected through 2022.
- Zambia: general government net and gross debt projections for 2022-27 are omitted due to ongoing debt restructuring.
Currency redenomination:
- Venezuela redenominated its currency on October 1, 2021, by replacing 1,000,000 bolívares soberano (VES) with 1 bolívar digital (VED).
Interest rate assumption change:
- Beginning with the April 2022 WEO, the interest rate assumptions are based on the three-month and ten-year government bond yields, which replace the London interbank offered rates.
- See the Assumptions section of the WEO Statistical Appendix for more details.

Corrections made on May 10, 2022 for India (data were incorrect in the originally published database):
- Gross domestic product, current prices (U.S. dollars) 2021-27
- Gross domestic product per capita, current prices (U.S. dollars) 2021-27
- Current account balance (percent of GDP) 2021-27