Today’s post by Jan-Hendrik Pretorius uses EconData to compare revisions in the IMF’s projections of government debt to GDP ratio. By comparison, the most recent Congressional Budget Office projections from 27 March 2025 has the ratio rising to 118 to GDP by 2035.
EconData’s IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) Module provides around 500 concepts for over 200 reference areas, with 5 year forecasts for each forecast vintage. The user guide that describes the dataset is available publicly here: https://econdata.co.za/user-guide/international/imf/
EconData makes it possible to download time series of millions of public domain time series and their real-time vintages in modeling-ready format. You can automate models and dashboards, whether you work in excel or using R or Python, without having to manually copy data from individual data release documents.
