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  "title": "World Economic Outlook Database October 2010",
  "publication": "World Economic Outlook",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/en/publications/weo/weo-database/2010/october",
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  "summary": "The WEO database is created during the biannual World Economic Outlook (WEO) exercise. Selected series that are available in the WEO publication are now available on this website.",
  "authors": [
    "Country Groups"
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Database purpose and release schedule",
      "content": "- The WEO database is created during the biannual World Economic Outlook (WEO) exercise.\n- 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.\n- The WEO is released in April and September/October each year."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Coverage and data series",
      "content": "- Contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report.\n- Use the database to find data on:\n  - national accounts,\n  - inflation,\n  - unemployment rates,\n  - balance of payments,\n  - fiscal indicators,\n  - trade for countries and country groups (aggregates),\n  - commodity prices reported by the IMF.\n- Data are available from 1980 to the present, and projections are given for the next two years.\n- Additionally, medium-term projections are available for selected indicators.\n- For some countries, data are incomplete or unavailable for certain years."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Data formats and access",
      "content": "- The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is now available in SDMX format from the Entire Dataset.\n- For more information about SDMX, consult SDMX.org."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Changes in the October 2010 database",
      "content": "- The emerging and developing economies’ Western Hemisphere region has been renamed Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).\n- 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.\n- Unless noted otherwise, group composites are computed if 90 percent or more of the share of group weights is represented.\n- Data for Kosovo are included in the emerging and developing economies aggregates.\n- 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.\n- 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."
    }
  ],
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    "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.",
    "Contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report.",
    "Use the database to find data on:",
    "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.",
    "The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is now available in SDMX format from the Entire Dataset.",
    "For more information about SDMX, consult SDMX.org.",
    "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.",
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  ],
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