📊 IMF World Economic Outlook Scraper

🚀 Export IMF World Economic Outlook indicators across countries and years: real GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, current account, government debt, and 40+ macro series. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-26 · 📊 8+ fields per record · Live data · Global coverage

Export IMF World Economic Outlook indicators across countries and years: real GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, current account, government debt, and 40+ macro series. Pick any indicator code or country. CSV, Excel, JSON or XML for economic research, modeling and journalism.

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Target Audience / Use Cases

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Analysts	Macro and indicator analysis
Researchers	Academic and policy studies
Journalists	Data-driven storytelling
Businesses	Market and competitive intelligence
Developers	Power data products and dashboards

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📋 What this scraper does

• Connects to the official source
• Pulls every record matching your filters
• Returns structured rows ready for analysis
• Outputs JSON, CSV, Excel, XML

💡 Why it matters: skip manual collection and get clean structured data in seconds.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
maxItems	integer	No	Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000
indicator	string	No	IMF DataMapper indicator code, e.g. NGDP_RPCH (Real GDP growth), PCPIPCH (Inflation), GGXWDG_NGDP (Gross debt %GDP).
country	string	No	Filter to a single ISO-3 country code (e.g. USA, JPN, DEU). Leave blank for all countries.

Example 1:

{
  "maxItems": 3,
  "indicator": "NGDP_RPCH"
}

Example 2:

{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "indicator": "NGDP_RPCH"
}

⚠️ Good to Know: the actor returns whatever the live source returns at runtime.

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📊 Output

Key fields: country, indicator, year, value, unit, source, sourceUrl, scrapedAt.

Sample:

{
  "country": "...",
  "indicator": "...",
  "year": "...",
  "value": "...",
  "unit": "..."
}

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✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🟢 Backed by official source data
• 🟢 No login or API key required
• 🟢 Filter combinations supported
• 🟢 Up to 1,000,000 records per paid run

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Option	Free	Bulk export	Live
Source website	Yes	No	Yes
Raw downloads	Yes	Yes	Periodic
ParseForge Scraper	Yes	Yes	Live

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open this actor
3. Set filters, click Start
4. Download CSV / Excel / JSON / XML
5. Schedule or integrate

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💼 Business use cases

Market intelligence

Track competitors and the market landscape.

Compliance

Monitor regulatory and registry changes.

Lead generation

Build prospect lists from public records.

Research

Power academic and analytical studies.

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🔌 Automating this Scraper

Integrates with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Build longitudinal datasets.

Personal

Look up records of personal interest.

Non-profit

Civic-tech and watchdog dashboards.

Experimentation

Pair with related ParseForge actors for combined analyses.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Source? Official live source.

Q: API key? No.

Q: Real-time? Yes.

Q: How often is the source updated? The source decides; the actor returns current values at run time.

Q: Output formats? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML.

Q: Free preview? Yes, 10 records.

Q: Bulk size? Up to 1,000,000 paid.

Q: Coverage? Worldwide where the source covers.

Q: Filtering? Use the input fields.

Q: Schedule? Yes, via Apify Schedules or webhooks.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Webhooks, REST API, Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, Google Sheets, and more.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the source. Only publicly available data is collected.