The International Monetary Fund’s International Financial
Statistics is a standard source of international statistics
on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports,
for most countries of the world, current and historic data
needed in the analysis of problems of international payments
and of inflation and deflation.
| Number
of series: |
80,000 |
| Number
of countries: |
184 |
| Frequency: |
Monthly,
Quarterly, Annual |
| Data
history: |
1948
to present |
| Update
cycle: |
Monthly |
Information
provided
The Fund’s principal statistical publication The International
Financial Statistics (IFS) is acknowledged as a standard source
of international statistics on all aspects of international
and domestic finance. It publishes, for most countries of
the world, current data on exchange rates, international liquidity,
international banking, money and banking, interest rates,
prices, production, international transactions (including
balance of payments and international investment position),
government finance, and national accounts. The information
is presented in country tables and in tables of area and world
aggregates.
IFS contains country tables for most Fund members, as well
as for Anguilla, Aruba, the Central African Economic and Monetary
Community (CEMAC), the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU),
the euro area, Montserrat, the Netherlands Antilles, the West
African Economic Monetary Union (WAEMU), and some non-sovereign
territorial entities for which statistics are provided internationally
on a separate basis. Selected series, including data on Fund
accounts, international reserves, and international trade,
are drawn from the country tables and published in world tables
as well.
The
monthly printed issue of IFS reports current monthly, quarterly,
and annual data. Most annual data begin in 1948; quarterly
and monthly data generally begin in 1957; most balance of
payments data begin in 1970.
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