Publication date:
Mar 24, 2025
Accessing International Financial Statistics (IFS)
International Financial Statistics (IFS) data is now organized around topics with indicators accessible via existing datasets in the IMF Data Portal
Overview
International Financial Statistics (IFS) data is now organized around topics with indicators accessible via existing datasets in the IMF Data Portal.
Available indicators, and the dataset they can be found in, are listed in the table below.
|
Original Dataset Name |
New Dataset Name |
|
International Financial Statistics (IFS) |
Discontinued as a single Dataset, Data by topic remains |
|
IFS, Labor Indicators |
Labor Force Statistics (LS) |
|
IFS, Consumer Prices Indicators |
Consumer Price Index (CPI) |
|
IFS, Fund Accounts Indicators |
Fund Accounts (FA) |
|
IFS, Effective Exchange Rate Indicators |
Effective Exchange Rate (EER) |
|
IFS, Exchange Rate Indicators |
Exchange Rate (ER) |
|
IFS, Quarterly GDP and its Components Indicators |
National Economic Accounts (NEA), Quarterly Data |
|
IFS, Annual GDP and its Components Indicators |
National Economic Accounts (NEA), Annual Data |
|
IFS, SPE Balance of Payments Indicators |
Special Purpose Entities (SPE) |
|
IFS, Balance of Payments Indicators |
Balance of Payments (BOP) |
|
IFS, International Investment Position Indicators |
International Investment Position (IIP) |
|
IFS, Currency Composition of IIP Indicators |
Currency Composition of the International Investment Position (IIP) |
|
IFS, Production Index Indicators |
Production Indexes (formerly IPI) |
|
IFS, Producers Price Index Indicators |
Producer Price Indexes (PPI) |
|
IFS, International Liquidity Indicators |
International Liquidity (IL) |
|
IFS, International Trade Indicators |
International Trade in Goods (ITG) |
|
IFS, Quarterly Government Finance Indicators |
Quarterly Government Finance Statistics (QGFS) |
|
IFS, Central Bank Indicators |
Monetary and Financial Statistics (MFS): Central Bank |
|
IFS, Depository Corporations Indicators |
Monetary and Financial Statistics (MFS): Depository Corporations |
|
IFS, Financial Corporations Indicators |
Monetary and Financial Statistics (MFS): Financial Corporations |
|
IFS, Other Financial Corporations Indicators |
Monetary and Financial Statistics (MFS): Other Financial Corporations |
|
IFS, Other Depository Corporations Indicators |
Monetary and Financial Statistics (MFS): Other Depository Corporations |
Users can access this data in many ways:
Dataset Catalogue
Users can filter datasets by any topic including the International Financial Statistics.
All datasets that have indicators from the International Financial Statistics will be displayed.
Data Explorer
Users can add the IFS Flag column to their data table and see all time series in a dataset from the International Financial Statistics.
This data can be included as part of the metadata when downloading data (see next section).
Downloading Data
The IFS Flag can be added as a metadata field in the download options.
Application Program Interface (API)
From the API you can filter by component value on IMF_FLAG to get data which was formerly in the IFS.
From the IMF Data Portal homepage, navigate to the API page under Data Resources, and explore the API using the Swagger page.
Select Data Query, note the “C” (constrain) parameter and set to c[IFS_Flag]=True
