World Economic Outlook Database, October 2018

World Economic Outlook

Source details

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is produced 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 presents IMF staff analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups, and for many individual countries.
The WEO is released in April and September/October each year.

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 whose data are reported by the IMF
Data availability:
- 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.

Argentina:
- Argentina’s consumer prices, previously excluded from group composites because of data constraints, are now included starting from 2017 onward.
Aruba:
- Data for Aruba are included in the data aggregated for the emerging market and developing economies; Aruba is classified as a member of the Latin America and Caribbean.
Egypt:
- Egypt’s forecast data from which the nominal exchange rate assumptions are calculated, previously excluded because the nominal exchange rate was a market-sensitive issue, are now made public.
Swaziland:
- Swaziland is now called Eswatini.
Venezuela:
- Venezuela redenominated its currency on August 20, 2018, by replacing 100,000 bolívares Fuertes (VEF) with 1 bolívar Soberano (VES).
- Local currency data, including the historical data, for Venezuela are expressed in the new currency beginning with the October 2018 WEO database.