Government finance statistics (GFS)
Title
Government finance statistics (GFS)
Description
Contains detailed data on revenue, grants, expense, transactions in assets and liabilities, and stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors.
This data is available in the IMF eLibrary. U of T Map & Data Library also holds archived copies of data from certain years.
Creator
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Collection
Statistics
Terms of Use
University of Toronto faculty, students, and staff, for academic research and teaching purposes only.
License
Restricted
CD Number
1358 (Jun 2013), 1357 (Mar 2013), 1356 (Dec 2012), 1355 (Sep 2012), 1325 (Jun 2011), 1324 (Mar 2011), 1052 (May 2004)
Distributor
Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund
Data Type
Time series statistical tables
Geographic Keywords
International
Mode of Data Collection
Central bank reports and bulletins, IMF area departments, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, International Labor Organization, IMF Treasurer's Department, the United Nations, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and information from national authorities
Notes
DOTS data from 1960 to the present is avaialble from the IMF eLibrary. University of Toronto holds an archive of DOTS from 1990-2003. Documentation in PDF format
Keywords
Economics and finance
Political Science
Time Period
1960-2003
Series
Government Finance Statistics
Citation
International Monetary Fund (IMF), “Government finance statistics (GFS),” MDL Data, accessed January 19, 2026, https://mdl-data.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/1347.
