World Economic Outlook Database October 2010
World Economic Outlook
Source details
- Canonical URL
- World Economic Outlook Database October 2010
Other formats
Bibliographic details
- Authors: Country Groups
Database purpose and release schedule
- The WEO database is created during the biannual World Economic Outlook (WEO) exercise.
- The WEO presents 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 series
- Contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report.
- Use the database to find data on:
- national accounts,
- inflation,
- unemployment rates,
- balance of payments,
- fiscal indicators,
- trade for countries and country groups (aggregates),
- commodity prices reported by the IMF.
- Data are available from 1980 to the present, and projections are given for the next two years.
- Additionally, medium-term projections are available for selected indicators.
- For some countries, data are incomplete or unavailable for certain years.
Data formats and access
- The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is now available in SDMX format from the Entire Dataset.
- For more information about SDMX, consult SDMX.org.
Changes in the October 2010 database
- The emerging and developing economies’ Western Hemisphere region has been renamed Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
- Country weights calculated as nominal GDP valued at purchasing-power-parity (PPP) exchange rates as a share of total world GDP have been updated to reflect revisions to countries’ historical GDP data and projections.
- Unless noted otherwise, group composites are computed if 90 percent or more of the share of group weights is represented.
- Data for Kosovo are included in the emerging and developing economies aggregates.
- Unemployment rates and general government series for revenue, total expenditure, net lending/borrowing, primary net lending/borrowing, gross debt, and net debt, where available, are now published for all countries.
- The local currency data for Suriname are expressed in the new currency. In 2004, Suriname redenominated its currency by replacing 1,000 Surinamese guilder with 1 Surinamese dollar.