World Revenue Longitudinal Database, IMF

Summary

The IMF’s World Revenue Longitudinal Database (WoRLD) tracks government revenue trends in 193 countries since the early 1990s. WoRLD tracks directly 9 key components of tax and non-tax revenues, which together contribute about 82 percent of government revenue globally.

Tables In IFs

Variable	Definition	UsedInPreprocessor	UsedInPreprocessorFileName	Code in Source
GovtGenGDebt%GDPFM	Gross debt, General government, Percent of GDP	0		GGXWDG_NGDP.A
GovtGenNDebt%GDPFM	Net debt, General government, Percent of GDP	0		GGXWDN_NGDP.A
GovtGenExp%GDPFM	Expenditure, General government, Percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	GGX_NGDP.A
GovtGenRev%GDPFM	Revenue, General government, Percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	GGR_NGDP.A

Data Pulling Instructions

Step 1: To pull WEO data, first navigate to the WEO Databases page

IMF WEO Database website

Step 2: To pull the most recent data (October 2025). Click on the anchor text IMF Data Portal.

IMF WEO Database Website

Step 3: After getting to the IMF Data Portal, Click on the View Data button.

IMF Data Platform

Step 4: After clicking the View Data, you'll be at the IMF WEO data page. From there you can adjust the filters(like Indicator, Country, Time Period...etc). Then you can click download.

IMF WEO Data

Optional(After Step 1): If you want pull specific years dataset Scroll down and click the Database with the month and year desired (ex. October 2016). After adjusting the filters, you can go a head and download the data by clicking on the Download button.

IMFWEO Database Selection Screen

You will be navigated to this page:

Report Main Page

Scroll down to the heading titled Download WEO Data and click By Countries for country-level data

Report Data Type Selection

You will be navigated to this page:

Country Group Selection

Scroll down and click All Countries

Country Group Selection

You will be navigated to this page:

Country Selection Page

Scroll down to select countries. You can either pre-select all countries in the IFs Country Concordance or click Select All and remove non-IFs countries later, then click Continue

Country Selection Page

You will be navigated to this page:

Subject Selection Page

Scroll down to view available subjects and select the subject in the units desired (ex. Gross domestic product, constant prices in percent change)

Subject Selection Page

Once a subject is selected, the page will look like this:

Subject Selection Page

Click Continue and you will be navigated to this page:

Data Range Selection Page

Use the dropdowns to select the desired data range (ex. 1980-2022) and adjust any advanced options as needed (ex. if ISO Country Codes will be used for Concordance)

Data Range & Advanced Options Selection Page

After you've selected your data range and adjusted advanced options, click Prepare Report and you will be navigated to this page:

Report Download Page

Click Download Report to begin downloading the data, which will download in an .xls format

Data Notes

If you are downloading the excel or CSV file for the data, some countries spelling gets messed up (ex. Côte d'Ivoire, "São Tomé and Príncipe", Türkiye) and need to be changed to match to the IMF WEO Countries naming conventions before importing them to the IFs Database.