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  "title": "World Economic Outlook Database, April 2024",
  "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.",
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    "Country Groups"
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    {
      "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, which 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.\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 whose data are reported by the IMF."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Coverage and temporal availability",
      "content": "- 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- For some countries, data are incomplete or unavailable for certain years."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Data access formats",
      "content": "- Selected series that are available in the WEO publication are available on the website.\n- The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is available in SDMX format from the Entire Dataset page.\n- For more information about SDMX, users are referred to SDMX.org."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Changes to the April 2024 database",
      "content": "- Ecuador’s fiscal sector projections are excluded from publication for 2024–29 because of ongoing program discussions.\n- Vietnam has been removed from the Low-Income Developing Countries (LIDCs) group and added to the Emerging Market and Middle-Income Economies (EMMIEs) group (featured in the WEO Report only).\n- For West Bank and Gaza:\n  - data for 2022-23 previously excluded from publication pending methodological adjustments to statistical series are now included,\n  - projections for 2024-29 are excluded from publication due to the unusually high degree of uncertainty."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Corrections to the April 2024 database",
      "content": "- The following data were incorrect in the originally published database and were corrected here on May 21, 2024 for North Macedonia, 2003–29:\n  - Gross domestic product per capita, constant prices (National currency)\n  - Gross domestic product per capita, constant prices (Purchasing power parity, 2017 international dollar)\n  - Gross domestic product per capita, current prices (National currency)\n  - Gross domestic product per capita, current prices (U.S. Dollars)\n  - Gross domestic product per capita, current prices (Purchasing power parity, international dollar)\n  - Population (Persons)"
    }
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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, which 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.",
    "Use the database to find data on:",
    "Data are available from 1980 to the present.",
    "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.",
    "Selected series that are available in the WEO publication are available on the website.",
    "The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is available in SDMX format from the Entire Dataset page.",
    "For more information about SDMX, users are referred to SDMX.org.",
    "Ecuador’s fiscal sector projections are excluded from publication for 2024–29 because of ongoing program discussions.",
    "Vietnam has been removed from the Low-Income Developing Countries (LIDCs) group and added to the Emerging Market and Middle-Income Economies (EMMIEs) group (featured in the WEO Report only).",
    "For West Bank and Gaza:",
    "The following data were incorrect in the originally published database and were corrected here on May 21, 2024 for North Macedonia, 2003–29:",
    "**April 2024 WEO Database - Country Data Documentation (Section 1 & Section 2)**"
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