How to find all indicators and country codes while using imf api
When following the imf api service to query data, you have to specify the indicators.
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Get full list of imf indicators
We have to appoarches.
- Access Indicator Mappings with Other Publications Concept Codes – IMF Data – It is an online excel file, contains everything.
- Go to the data.imf.org and select one parent indicator, then
Filter
–Indicator panel
, and do aright click
- Then left click on
Attribute
- Then left click (select)
Code
Get country code for imf api
Actually, the coutry code using in imf api is iso Alpha-2 code, so we can get it from List of ISO 3166 country codes on Wikipedia.