World Economic Outlook Database April 2014

World Economic Outlook

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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.
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 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.
The WEO is released in April and September/October each year.
World Economic Outlook on Google Public Data Explorer offers select indicators from the latest online WEO database, such as GDP growth and inflation.

On January 1, 2014, Latvia became the 18th country to join the euro area. Data for Latvia are not included in the euro area aggregates because the database has not yet been converted to euros, but are included in data aggregated for advanced economies.
Starting with the April 2014 WEO, the Central and Eastern Europe and Emerging Europe regions have been renamed Emerging and Developing Europe. The Developing Asia region has been renamed Emerging and Developing Asia.
Projections for Ukraine are excluded due to the ongoing crisis.
The consumer price projections for Argentina are excluded because of a structural break in the data. Refer to note 6 in Table A7 of the April 2014 WEO for further details.
Korea’s real GDP series in the WEO is based on the reference year 2005. This does not reflect the revised national accounts released on March 26, 2014, which implemented the 2008 System of National Accounts and updated the reference year to 2010. As a result of those revisions, real GDP growth in 2013 was revised up to 3 percent from 2.8 percent (the figure included in Tables 2.3 and A2 of the April 2014 WEO).
Cape Verde is now called Cabo Verde.
As in the October 2013 WEO, data for Syria are excluded for 2011 onward because of the uncertain political situation.

For some countries, data are incomplete or unavailable for certain years.
For the latest GDP data for the following countries, check the "Projected % Change" table in the left column of the individual country pages: Brazil; Canada; China; France; Germany; India; Italy; Japan; Mexico; Russia; Saudi Arabia; South Africa; Spain; United Kingdom; United States.