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1{2 "slug": "imf-data",3 "name": "IMF Data",4 "aliases": [5 "data.imf.org",6 "IMF Data Portal",7 "World Economic Outlook database"8 ],9 "vendor": {10 "name": "International Monetary Fund",11 "slug": "imf",12 "website": "https://www.imf.org"13 },14 "homepage_url": "https://data.imf.org/en",15 "docs_url": "https://data.imf.org/en/Resource-Pages/IMF-API",16 "product_type": "data-service",17 "product_status": "active",18 "summary": "The IMF's statistical portal for World Economic Outlook, fiscal, balance-of-payments, reserves and price datasets with SDMX 2.1 and 3.0 APIs",19 "description": "IMF Data is the International Monetary Fund's portal for its macroeconomic and financial statistics, relaunched in 2025 on a new platform. It hosts the World Economic Outlook database with historical series and medium-term projections, the Fiscal Monitor, consumer price indices, reserve composition (COFER), balance of payments, international liquidity (formerly part of International Financial Statistics) and many thematic datasets. Data can be explored and downloaded in the browser and retrieved programmatically through SDMX 2.1 and SDMX 3.0 web services, with guidance for MATLAB, Python, R and Stata and a Swagger explorer. It is a core source for cross-country macro-financial research and policy work. Access is free; the IMF's copyright and usage terms govern redistribution. The platform migration changed dataset identifiers and endpoints relative to the former JSON RESTful service, so older client code and tutorials may need updating, and some datasets are released on a lag or require sign-in for the API explorer.",20 "capabilities": [21 "World Economic Outlook series and projections",22 "Fiscal, price, reserves and external-sector datasets",23 "SDMX 2.1 and 3.0 APIs for structured retrieval",24 "Browser-based exploration, charting and downloads",25 "Access guides for Python, R, MATLAB and Stata"26 ],27 "workflows": [28 "Download WEO projections for a set of countries into pandas via SDMX",29 "Compare fiscal balances across economies for a policy brief"30 ],31 "advantages": [32 "Authoritative multilateral source",33 "Standards-based SDMX access",34 "Projections alongside history"35 ],36 "limitations": [37 "Platform migration changed endpoints and identifiers",38 "API explorer requires an account",39 "Some series published with lags or revisions"40 ],41 "prerequisites": [42 "SDMX-capable client or HTTP library"43 ],44 "audiences": [45 "Macro and international economists",46 "Central bank and ministry analysts",47 "Graduate students"48 ],49 "alternatives": [50 "world-bank-data",51 "eurostat",52 "statistics-canada",53 "fred"54 ],55 "comparison_notes": "World Bank Open Data emphasises development indicators with a simple REST API; IMF Data is stronger on fiscal, external and projection data via SDMX. Eurostat is EU-specific, and FRED redistributes selected IMF series with a simpler API.",56 "categories": [57 {58 "slug": "open-public-data",59 "primary": true60 },61 {62 "slug": "market-data-apis",63 "label": "Macro-financial statistics"64 }65 ],66 "tags": [67 "open-data",68 "macroeconomics",69 "sdmx",70 "api",71 "econometrics"72 ],73 "use_cases": [74 "access-public-statistics",75 "write-papers"76 ],77 "operating_systems": [78 "web",79 "any"80 ],81 "execution_modes": [82 "cloud"83 ],84 "interfaces": [85 "web",86 "api"87 ],88 "deployment_models": [89 "saas"90 ],91 "integrations": [92 "Python",93 "R",94 "Stata",95 "MATLAB",96 "SDMX clients"97 ],98 "data_formats": [99 "SDMX-ML",100 "SDMX-JSON",101 "CSV",102 "Excel"103 ],104 "languages": [],105 "source_model": "proprietary",106 "pricing_model": [107 "free"108 ],109 "self_hostable": false,110 "sources": [111 {112 "url": "https://data.imf.org/en",113 "type": "official_site",114 "supports": [115 "name",116 "summary",117 "capabilities"118 ],119 "checked_at": "2026-11-02",120 "title": "IMF Data",121 "note": "Site returns 403 to plain HTTP clients; verified through a rendering fetcher"122 },123 {124 "url": "https://data.imf.org/en/Resource-Pages/IMF-API",125 "type": "official_docs",126 "supports": [127 "interfaces",128 "integrations",129 "limitations"130 ],131 "checked_at": "2026-11-02",132 "title": "IMF Data APIs (SDMX 2.1 and 3.0)"133 }134 ],135 "confidence": "medium",136 "uncertainty_note": "IMF pages block automated HTTP clients; content was verified via a rendering fetcher. The copyright and usage terms page could not be loaded today, so licensing details are not recorded.",137 "depth": "standard",138 "featured": false,139 "discovery_method": "editorial-research",140 "editorial_status": "reviewed",141 "visibility": "public",142 "author": "batch-F"143}144