IMF Data

International Monetary Fund data REST API for accessing financial statistics, economic indicators, balance of payments, exchange rates, and international financial data. The API follows the SDMX 3.0 standard and provides access to hundreds of datasets covering macroeconomic indicators, fiscal monitor data, monetary and financial statistics, government finance statistics, and balance of payments across IMF member countries.

IMF Data publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Data API and Structure API. Tagged areas include Financial Data, Economic Indicators, Balance of Payments, Exchange Rates, and International Finance.

The IMF Data catalog on APIs.io includes 2 JSON-LD contexts and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

IMF Data’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 10 more developer resources.

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36.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFree

2 APIs

Financial Data Economic IndicatorsBalance of PaymentsExchange RatesInternational FinanceSDMX MacroeconomicsFiscal PolicyMonetary StatisticsGovernment Finance

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 36.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 6.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.7 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Imf Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: imf
name: IMF Data
description: International Monetary Fund data REST API for accessing financial statistics, economic indicators, balance of
  payments, exchange rates, and international financial data. The API follows the SDMX 3.0 standard and provides access to
  hundreds of datasets covering macroeconomic indicators, fiscal monitor data, monetary and financial statistics, government
  finance statistics, and balance of payments across IMF member countries.
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/imf.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imf/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Financial Data
- Economic Indicators
- Balance of Payments
- Exchange Rates
- International Finance
- SDMX
- Macroeconomics
- Fiscal Policy
- Monetary Statistics
- Government Finance
apis:
- aid: imf:imf-data-api
  name: IMF Data Data API
  description: Retrieve actual statistical data observations from IMF datasets
  humanURL: https://data.imf.org/
  baseURL: https://api.imf.org/external/sdmx/3.0
  tags:
  - Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/imf-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datahelp.imf.org/knowledgebase/articles/667294-using-json-restful-web-service
- aid: imf:imf-structure-api
  name: IMF Data Structure API
  description: Retrieve dataset metadata including dataflows, data structures, codelists, and concept schemes
  humanURL: https://data.imf.org/
  baseURL: https://api.imf.org/external/sdmx/3.0
  tags:
  - Structure
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/imf-structure-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datahelp.imf.org/knowledgebase/articles/667294-using-json-restful-web-service
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/imf-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/imf-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.imf.org/en/Data
- type: Documentation
  url: https://datahelp.imf.org/knowledgebase/articles/667294-using-json-restful-web-service
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/IMFStatistics
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/international-monetary-fund
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.imf.org/en/Data
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://data.imf.org/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/IMFData
- type: Plans
  url: plans/imf-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/imf-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/imf-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com