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May 28, 2025

The New IMF Data Portal Is Here: Modern Interface, Enhanced Search, Updated API for Developers

Welcome to your gateway to International Monetary Fund’s global economic data. Our new data portal provides streamlined access to timely, reliable, and easy-to-understand macroeconomic and financial data. The portal boasts several enhanced features, including an updated API, a modern interface, and improved search functionality, making access to IMF’s flagship products—such as the World Economic Outlook, Regional Economic Outlooks, and Fiscal Monitor—more efficient and user-friendly.

The IMF Data Portal replaces the legacy system on data.imf.org without interruption to IMF-produced data sets. The portal is the new centralized platform for all IMF-disseminated data sets, offering a modern, seamless experience for researchers, policymakers, and data enthusiasts.

What you need to know:

The IMF Data Portal is a one-stop shop for IMF data sets, including WEO, Fiscal Monitor, and Consumer Price Index.
An updated API allows for seamless integration of IMF data into applications.
Users should update links or favorites connected to the old data portal to point to the data in the new IMF Data Portal.
The retiring data repository will remain accessible at legacydata.imf.org until June 30, 2025.
International Financial Statistics (IFS) will no longer be packaged as a single data set. Access to IFS data will be through existing data sets that publish those statistics. Learn more about how to find IFS data in the IFS help article.
Some data set names have changed. Please refer to this list of data sets.

The IMF Data Portal also includes the latest updates, such as:

IMF Data Brief: International Trade in Goods

Global merchandise exports decreased in February 2025 because of reduced exports from emerging markets and developing economies.

Regional Economic Outlook (REO): Middle East and Central Asia

Charting a path through the haze: Growth is projected to rise in the Middle East and North Africa in 2025 and 2026, but at a slower pace than anticipated in the October 2024 REO. Across the region, rising trade tensions and policy uncertainty are adding to the impact of conflicts and extended oil production cuts in weakening growth prospects.

In the Caucasus and Central Asia, growth has been robust but is set to moderate to a more sustainable pace. Policymakers must adapt to the new environment, prioritizing macroeconomic stability and accelerating structural reforms to seize global opportunities.

World Economic Outlook, April 2025

After a series of unprecedented and prolonged shocks, the global economy appears to have stabilized, with steady yet underwhelming growth rates. The landscape has shifted, however, as governments around the world reorder policy priorities and uncertainties climb to new highs. Global growth forecasts have been revised markedly down compared with the January 2025 World Economic Outlook Update, reflecting a highly unpredictable environment and effective tariff rates levels not seen in a century. Global headline inflation is expected to decline at a slightly slower pace than what was expected in January.

This and so much more is available on the all-new IMF Data Portal. Visit today!

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