IFS Online Service Pricing Policy

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is committed to providing high-quality statistical information to its member country constituents around the world. To help achieve this, and to make this data more readily available to transitional and developing countries, the IMF has established a significantly discounted price structure for the IFS Online Service. To view your country classification, please click here.  The discount structure for each region is in the price table shown below. In addition to discounts for transitional and developing countries, there are further reductions for individual users in academic and not-for-profit organizations. The prices for multiple-user electronic subscriptions are shown below.

Individual User License
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The subscription for individual users will commence on completion of the ordering and payment procedures, and on acceptance of the individual user license agreement on the IFS website.

* Discount rate is based on full price of $575.00

* Discount rate is based on full price of $345.00


Institutional Licenses (Academic Institutions)
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The subscription for institutional-users will commence on completion of the ordering and payment procedures and on acceptance of the multiple-user license agreement. Prices apply to geographically distinct institutions, such as a single campus of a university. All prices are in US dollars. The license agreement is available for download from the website. We will require a signed copy of this document in order to activate your multiple-user account. On it, you must list a range of IP addresses for activation. For faster access, fax a copy of the signed license to us at 202-623-7201, and we will alert you when your access is granted. Or you can mail the license to:

International Monetary Fund
Publication Services (IFS Licenses)
700 19^th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20431, USA

* Discount rate is based on full price of $495.00


Institutional Licenses (Not-for-Profit)
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The subscription for institutional-users will commence on completion of the ordering and payment procedures and on acceptance of the multiple-user license agreement. Prices apply to geographically distinct institutions, such as a single campus of a university. All prices are in US dollars. The license agreement is available for download from the website. We will require a signed copy of this document in order to activate your multiple-user account. On it, you must list a range of IP addresses for activation. For faster access, fax a copy of the signed license to us at 202-623-7201, and we will alert you when your access is granted. Or you can mail the license to:

International Monetary Fund
Publication Services (IFS Licenses)
700 19^th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20431, USA

* Discount rate is based on full price of $495.00

Institutional License (Commercial Institutions)
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The subscription for institutional-users will commence on completion of the ordering and payment procedures and on acceptance of the multiple-user license agreement. Prices apply to geographically distinct institutions, such as a single campus of a university. All prices are in US dollars. The license agreement is available for download from the website. We will require a signed copy of this document in order to activate your multiple-user account. On it, you must list a range of IP addresses for activation. For faster access, fax a copy of the signed license to us at 202-623-7201, and we will alert you when your access is granted. Or you can mail the license to:

International Monetary Fund
Publication Services (IFS Licenses)
700 19^th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20431, USA

* Discount rate is based on full price of $495.00



How to Sign Up


You can subscribe to the IFS Online Service directly through the secure e-commerce web site. For institutional orders, we will require either payment in full by credit card, or payment against an official Purchase Order from your institution. Purchase orders may be faxed to us for expediency. By choosing the invoice option, you will be able to download a copy of the invoice from the Internet. In order to process your order, we will require the information detailed below. This information will be used to validate your personal or institutional subscription price. For institutional orders, we will also require a completed and signed license agreement to be faxed to 202-623-7201 as soon as possible following the registration and ordering process.

• Customer/institutional name
• Address — street, city, postal code, country
• Contact information: name, e-mail, phone, (name of person who is responsible for administration or purchasing of the IFS Online Service)

Geographic Discounts

To make high-quality statistical information more readily available to developing countries, the IMF has established a significantly discounted price for the IFS Online Service. Please see the following listing to determine your applicable discount: