IMF WEO 2026 update

I know, I'm a bit late with updating the Economy section with the latest World Economic Outlook data, but bear with me.

One of the things that has been bothering me with periodic updates like these (and with projections in general) is that older releases get buried under the new ones. I understand circumstances change and that affects the way these things are calculated, but I just don't like stuff like that fading away. So I've been working on a new feature.

If you navigate to the Economy tab within a selected country, and select a metric, next to the title you'll now see a small arrow that takes you to that metric's individual page. From there, when there's a new release, you can compare old and new numbers and see where they diverge.

I tried a few ways to integrate this more broadly across the site, but most of them looked messy and weren't understood at a glance, so for now it lives on the individual metric pages.

The April 2026 WEO had some big movers worth a look. Japan's gross government debt for 2025, the famous "highest in the world" figure, was revised from 229.6% of GDP down to 206.5%, a 23-point cut. Argentina's 2026 inflation forecast nearly doubled, from 16.4% to 30.4%. Ukraine's 2026 growth was more than halved, from 4.5% to 2.0%.

These new numbers reflect six months of new information. Now they'll stay side by side instead of one quietly replacing the other.

Thanks for reading and visiting.

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