📊 IMF Data Scraper

🚀 Export IMF economic indicators for 190+ countries in seconds. GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, government debt - all from the IMF World Economic Outlook, zero configuration required.

The IMF Data Scraper extracts time series data from the International Monetary Fund's public World Economic Outlook (WEO) API. No API key required - the IMF provides this data freely. Every record includes the indicator code, human-readable name, country, year, value, unit, and scrape timestamp.

Coverage spans the full WEO dataset: GDP, inflation, unemployment, current account, government debt, PPP conversion rates, and more, for every IMF member country from 1980 through present with forecasts to 2031.

Target Audience / Use Cases

Who	Why
Economists & analysts	Track macroeconomic trends across countries
Journalists	Research and fact-check economic data
Data scientists	Build models with clean, structured IMF data
Investors	Monitor macro indicators for market research
Academic researchers	Comparative country studies
Developers	Integrate IMF data into dashboards and apps

📋 What the IMF Data Scraper does

• Selects from 9 World Economic Outlook indicators including CPI inflation, GDP growth, unemployment, and government debt
• Accepts any combination of ISO 2-letter country codes for precise country selection
• Filters by start and end year (1980 to 2031 including forecasts)
• Respects maxItems for controlled data extraction
• Returns clean structured records with no null fields for the supported indicators
• Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, and XML in one click

💡 Why it matters: The IMF WEO is one of the most authoritative macroeconomic datasets in the world, updated twice yearly. Getting this data in a spreadsheet previously required manual downloads from the IMF website. This actor delivers it in seconds.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: country, countryCode, frequency, indicator, indicatorName, results, scrapedAt, unit, url, value, year. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account - includes $5 credit
2. Open the IMF Data Scraper actor page
3. Select an indicator from the dropdown (e.g. "Inflation Rate, Average Consumer Prices")
4. Enter country codes (e.g. ["US","GB","DE","JP","CN"]) or leave empty for top 20 economies
5. Set the year range (default 2010-2023)
6. Click Start and wait a few seconds
7. Download your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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Disclaimer: This actor scrapes publicly available data from the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook API. All data is sourced from www.imf.org. Use of this data is subject to IMF's terms of service. ParseForge is not affiliated with the IMF. Data accuracy depends on the IMF's own figures and forecast methodology.

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