IMFWEO International Monetary Fund World Economic Outlook

Summary

The historical data and projections are based on the information gathered by the IMF country desk officers in the context of their missions to IMF member countries and through their ongoing analysis of the evolving situation in each country. Historical data are updated on a bi-annual basis, as more information becomes available. IMF staff estimates serve as proxies for historical series when complete information is unavailable. As a result, WEO data can differ from other sources with official data, including the IMF’s International Financial Statistics.

The Data Team uses this dataset for a number of series, including GDPGrowthRate and GDPGrowthRateIMFWEO2011.

To pull IMFWEO for uploading into IFs, please follow the instructions below.

Steps to Pull Data from IMFWEO

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

Step 2: Click the Database with the month and year desired (ex. October 2016)

Step 3: Scroll down to the heading titled Download WEO Data and click By Countries for country-level data

Step 4: When prompted to select a country group, click All Countries

Step 5: When prompted 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

Step 6: When prompted to select subjects, select the subject in the units desired (ex. Gross domestic product, constant prices in percent change) and click Continue

Step 7: When prompted to select data range, select the desired range (ex. 1980-2022), adjust any advanced options as needed (ex. if ISO Country Codes will be used for Concordance) click Prepare Report.

Step 8: Click Download Report to begin downloading the data, which will download in an .xls format