Version 8.51 (August 7th, 2025)

Version 8.51 (August 7th, 2025)

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You can download IFs Version 8.51 at IFs 8.51.

Interface Updates

• Fix order in G-Lists WB Income Groups
• Increase font size in axis ticker values in World Value Survey Display.
• Handling problems with strange characters in some descriptions in Cross-Section, for example GDI.

Model Updates

• Added Bilateral Tariff Weighted Elasticities.

  

Data Updates

• New data on Bilateral Tariff Weighted Elasticities.
• 148 Tables inserted & updated in IFsHistSeries
• 2 preprocessors updated, GDP2011 & GDP2017 based on IMF's July2025 revision
• 99 tables updated, historical data for pov rate by sex & age from WPC
• 1 table updated, carbon emissions from GCB
• 12 tables created, historical GDP & Population from Fariss et al. (2022)
• 15 tables updated, obesity rates from WHO
• 19 tables fixed, energy resource & reserve from BGR
• 12 Rows updated in DataDict
• 7 rows, typos under the [Group] fixed, "SociaPolitical" -> "Sociopolitical"
• 5 rows, [Aggregation] for UNPD Med projections are now POPUNPDMED2022

• 9 tables updated in IFs.db
• 9 tables, pov rates by gender and age groups at 3 thresholds. Values are taken from year 2022, tables are named with prefix PovRateAge

• 142 Tables inserted & updated
• InfMortRateIHME in DataDict now has an aggregation rule using BIRTHS
• 20 tables, SHAPE scenario based projections of GDPPCPPP & Poverty, updated ones that now have values for Turkey
• 18 tables from FAO AquaStat on water resources & water infrastructure
• 19 tables from BGR, energy reserves
• 5 table from BP, energy production and consumption for gas, oil, and coal
• 1 preprocessor, corruption index
• 1 table from EIA, total electricity capacity
• 26 tables FAO FishJ, fish catch and fish production
• 8 tables from FAO TradeStat, crop and meat trade values
• 1 preprocessor from OECD, gov outlay
• 11 tables from ILO, labor par by gender & labor size by sector
• 2 tables from IMF, gov debt
• 9 tables from IMF GFS, gov revenue and gov spending on health & education
• 2 tables from SIPRI, military spending
• 2 tables from UNHDR, GII and GDI
• 8 tables from UNODC, drug prevalence
• 2 tables from UNSD, marriage rates
• 2 tables from WGI, gov effectiveness and quality
• 4 tables from WRS, paved roads

Known Issues

After release of IFs 8.51 an issue with the bilateral tariff weighted elasticities formula was discovered. This error was corrected in IFs 8.53.