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Macro Economic Indicators / National Accounts / Country Reports
This pathfinder is a guide on easily accessible web-based resources for macro economic data and national accounts.
Key Economic Indicators [Asian Development Bank]
Key Indicators is an annual statistical publication of the Asian Development Bank. It presents the most current economic, financial and social data on the Bank's developing member countries.
World Development Indicators [World Bank]
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. This resource includes more than 800 indicators in 83 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. Data are shown for 152 economies with populations of more than 1 million and 14 country groups, plus selected indicators for 56 other smaller economies. Indicators are shown for the most recent year or period for which data are available and, in most tables, for an earlier year or period.
IMF Members' Financial Data by Country [International Monetary Fund]
This website provides macro economic data, including national accounts, of 182 IMF country members. Data is available for downloading in TSV format.
Global Development Finance [World Bank]
The World Bank's comprehensive annual compilation of data on external debt and financial flows. It also includes analysis and data in global economic growth, global imbalances, inflation and exchange rates, commodity markets and risk and policy priorities.
International Comparison Program (ICP) [World Bank]
International Comparison Program(ICP) is a global statistical initiative established to produce internationally comparable price levels, expenditure values, and Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) estimates. Data is in pdf format.
World Economic Outlook [International Monetary Fund]
This resouce presents IMF's analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups (classified by region, stage of development, etc.), and in many individual countries. It focuses on major economic policy issues as well as on the analysis of economic developments and prospects.
IMF Country Reports [International Monetary Fund]
This website allows free access to all IMF country members' reports. All country reports are in pdf format and time series data for official reserve assets and foreign currency assets are in both pdf and CSV format.
National Accounts Main Aggregates Database [International Monetary Fund]
It is the product of a global cooperation effort between the United Nations Statistics Division, international statistical agencies and the national statistical services of more than 200 countries. This database contains a complete and consistent set of time series from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates for all UN Members States and all other countries and areas in the world. It is maintained and updated on the basis of annual collections of the official annual national accounts statistics supplemented by estimates of national accounts statistics for those years and countries for which the official statistics has incomplete or inconsistent information. In addition, to the values of national accounts statistics, it contains analytical indicators and ratios derived from the main national accounts aggregates related to economic structure and development.
EIU Country Reports [Business Source Premier]
BSP provides country economic profiles and reports from EIU, DRI-WEFA, ICON Group and CountryWatch.
APEC Country Economic Outlook (country economic reports) [Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation]
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation(APEC) is the premier forum for facilitating economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region. Free access to key economic indicators, annual economic outlook, economic reports of the 21 country members.
Country Economic Reviews [Asian Development Bank]
Free online access to some Asian country economic reviews.
Source OECD
University of Sydney Library has subscribed to the Source OECD. The database Includes the full text of all OECD publications, such as OECD Economic Outlook, and OECD Economic Surveys. It also includes a range of OECD databases such as Main Economic Indicators, Main Industrial Indicators, National Accounts, Social Expenditure, Economic Outlook and many others.
(Use the GO TO [Select from list] drop down box at the top of the screen and choose OECD Databases, or books or journals)
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