International Monetary Fund
World Economic Outlook database (IMF Data SDMX 2.1 API)
Approved with attributionInternational Monetary Fund. World Economic Outlook (WEO), https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.RES:WEO. Accessed on [current date].
Metrics fed
4
Observations stored
34,466
Last successful ingestion
2026-10-19 00:15 UTC
Expected cadence
twice a year (April and October WEO), with interim updates
stale after 400 days
Source record
Dataset and terms
- Organization
- International Monetary Fund
- Dataset
- World Economic Outlook database (IMF Data SDMX 2.1 API)
- Documentation
- https://data.imf.org/en/Resource-Pages/IMF-API
- Terms of use
- https://www.imf.org/external/terms.htm
- License status
- Approved with attribution
- Attribution
- International Monetary Fund. World Economic Outlook (WEO), https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.RES:WEO. Accessed on [current date].
- Geographic coverage
- World aggregate (G001) and about 195 economies by ISO3; IMF analytical groups are not stored
- Temporal coverage
- 1980 to the latest actual year per country; projection years are not stored
- Update cadence
- twice a year (April and October WEO), with interim updates
- Revision policy
- Each WEO vintage restates history. Humanity Vector keeps every ingested value; the data set PUBLICATION_DATE is stored as source_revision.
- Authentication
- No key. api.imf.org/external/sdmx/2.1 answers structure-specific SDMX-ML; the DataMapper API also works without a key but carries no projection cut-off.
- Rate limits
- Not published. One request per indicator, spaced 1.5 seconds apart.
- Record updated
- 2026-10-19 00:15 UTC
Fed by this source
Metrics
- Consumer price inflation (IMF WEO)Economy & CapitalObserved
- Current account balance (IMF WEO)Economy & CapitalObserved
- General government gross debt (IMF WEO)Economy & CapitalObserved
- Real GDP growth (IMF WEO)Economy & CapitalObserved
Ingestion log
Recent ingestion runs
| Started (UTC) | Status | Duration | Rows seen | Written | Parser | Error summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 00:15 UTC | success | 5.4 s | 29811 | 4934 | imf-sdmx-weo/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-10-12 00:05 UTC | success | 5.3 s | 29532 | 0 | imf-sdmx-weo/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-10-05 00:04 UTC | success | 11.8 s | 29532 | 0 | imf-sdmx-weo/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-28 00:06 UTC | success | 7.5 s | 29532 | 0 | imf-sdmx-weo/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-21 00:05 UTC | success | 12.1 s | 29532 | 0 | imf-sdmx-weo/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-14 00:06 UTC | success | 11.0 s | 29532 | 0 | imf-sdmx-weo/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-07 22:04 UTC | success | 5.1 s | 29532 | 0 | imf-sdmx-weo/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-07 20:16 UTC | success | 5.5 s | 29532 | 0 | imf-sdmx-weo/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC | success | 6.4 s | 29532 | 29532 | imf-sdmx-weo/1.0.0 | none |