China Macro & Trade Monthly Indicators — IMF/World Bank Basis

What you get

• Monthly indicator observations: CPI with COICOP category breakdown, industrial production index, goods trade totals, exchange rates and international reserves from the IMF Data Portal (SDMX 2.1 API)
• China monthly goods exports/imports versus 200+ partner economies (IMF IMTS)
• 17 World Bank WDI annual context indicators for longer-horizon analysis
• Values exactly as published by the sources — no imputation; source nulls dropped and accounted for in the QC report
• Full data dictionary and per-table row counts in the package MANIFEST

Data dictionary summary

Key fields — the full data dictionary ships with every purchase.

Coverage statistics

Records

284,514

Observations

16,983

Fields

28

Time coverage

1990-01-01 – 2026-06-01

Largest package

4.1 MB

Free Open Data — full downloads

This dataset is part of the DataForge Open Data program: the upstream license (Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream data: World Bank WDI, CC BY 4.0 (retain World Bank attribution); IMF-sourced tables are NOT included) permits free redistribution, so the complete packages below are free — no signup. Please cite DataForge (data.zalize.com) with a backlink when you use or share this data.

License: Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream data: World Bank WDI, CC BY 4.0 (retain World Bank attribution); IMF-sourced tables are NOT included · Attribution: DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from World Bank WDI (CC BY 4.0)

Full package inventory

Every package registered in the delivery catalog for this dataset — 7 packages, 12.3 MB total , 870,525 rows. Sizes, row counts and SHA-256 checksums come straight from the packaging pipeline.

How to get this data

All packages are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub: free/open packages live in a public dataset repo (direct downloads, no signup); paid or restricted editions are delivered from a private repo with token access after approval.

# Download the whole dataset repo (hf CLI — pip install -U huggingface_hub)
hf download zalizedata/china-macro-trade-monthly-dataset --repo-type dataset --local-dir china-macro-trade-monthly-dataset

Protocol access (hf://, resolve links, token auth for private repos) is documented in the developer docs →

Pricing

AI-training use requires the AI-Training tier (1.5× base); redistribution licensing is quoted individually. Annual subscriptions get 2 months free. License details →

Update frequency & delivery

• Monthly refresh from the IMF Data Portal (SDMX 2.1 API) and World Bank Open Data API
• Each release ships with a MANIFEST (sha256, per-table row counts) and a QC report covering dropped source nulls

Compliance & provenance

Collected only from publicly accessible pages and endpoints — no login-required data, no CAPTCHA solving, no forged authentication. Collection is rate-limited with an identified User-Agent, and collection logs are retained. PII is removed or pseudonymized. Every record carries its source URL and collection timestamp. Sold under a tiered commercial license.

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