IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) database. The IMF World Economic
Outlook is a twice-yearly survey by IMF staff that presents IMF staff
economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium
term. Associated with the report is the World Economic Outlook
Database, a country-level dataset of major macro-economic variables
(GDP, Unemployment, Debt etc). It is the data from that database which is
provided here.
Data
The source database is made of annual values for each country on 45 indicators
since 1980. In addition the database includes the IMF projects approximately 6
years into the future.
We extract this data and normalize into 2 files:
- Indicators -
data/indicators.csv - the list of indicators
- Values -
data/values.csv - set of values for each indicator, country, year tuple.
Sources
Note the XLS files actual turn out to be tsv files!
Preparation
Code to extract the data from the source WEO Database is in the scripts
directory.
