The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Government Finance Statistics (GFS) database provides current and internationally comparable annual time series data on the finances and fiscal policies of IMF member governments from 1972 onwards. Topics covered include:

deficit/surplus or total financing
revenues or grants, expenditures
lending minus repayments
domestic financing
foreign financing
domestic debt or total debt, and foreign debt

This database was first provided by ESDS International in November 2004. The ESDS International web site includes further information on its IMF GFS holdings, including a database description and details of latest database updates . Main Topics:Topics covered include:

finance

economics