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  "title": "World Economic Outlook Database, October 2021",
  "publication": "World Economic Outlook",
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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": "Purpose and scope",
      "content": "- The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report.\n- 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.\n- The WEO is released in April and September/October each year."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Data content and coverage",
      "content": "- Types of indicators included:\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- Temporal coverage:\n  - Data are available from 1980 to the present.\n  - Projections are given for the next two years.\n  - Additionally, medium-term projections are available for selected indicators.\n- Completeness:\n  - For some countries, data are incomplete or unavailable for certain years."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Access formats and distribution",
      "content": "- The WEO database is created during the biannual World Economic Outlook exercise.\n- The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is available in SDMX format from the Entire Dataset page.\n- For more information about SDMX, the entry refers users to SDMX.org."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Changes in the October 2021 Database",
      "content": "- Data for Andorra have been added to the database and are included in the advanced economies group composites."
    }
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    "The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database 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.",
    "Types of indicators included:",
    "Temporal coverage:",
    "Completeness:",
    "The WEO database is created during the biannual World Economic Outlook exercise.",
    "The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is available in SDMX format from the Entire Dataset page.",
    "For more information about SDMX, the entry refers users to SDMX.org.",
    "Data for Andorra have been added to the database and are included in the advanced economies group composites.",
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