International Financial Statistics (IFS) [IFS]

Description

The International Financial Statistics database covers about 200 countries and areas, with some aggregates calculated for selected regions, plus some world totals. Topics covered include balance of payments, commodity prices, exchange rates, fund position, government finance, industrial production, interest rates, international investment position, international liquidity, international transactions, labor statistics, money and banking, national accounts, population, prices, and real effective exchange rates.

Updated by provider on

October 18, 2021

Notes

• Temporal Coverage: Data available starting in the 1948 for many IMF member countries. Varies by country.
• Geographic Coverage: IFS covers 194 countries and areas. Under the Fund’s legal framework, the member in effective control of a territory must report data respecting that territory. With respect to data on any territory whose status is the subject of a dispute between members, the IMF’s use of data on that territory provided by a member, either for surveillance or any other Fund activities, does not constitute a judgment by the IMF on the status of that territory.
• Methodology: The International Financial Statistics is based on various IMF data collections. It includes exchange rates series for all Fund member countries plus Anguilla, Aruba, China, P.R.: Hong Kong, China, P.R.: Macao, Montserrat, and the Netherlands Antilles. It also includes major Fund accounts series, real effective exchange rates, and other world, area, and country series. Data are available for most IMF member countries with some aggregates calculated for select regions, plus some world totals.
• Sectoral Coverage: National Accounts, Indicators of Economic Activity, Labor Markets, Prices, Government and Public Sector Finance, Financial Indicators, Balance of Payments, International Investment Position, International Reserves, Fund Accounts, External Trade, Exchange Rates, and Population.
• Code: IFS