Myanmar Implements the International Monetary Fund's Enhanced General Data Dissemination System

April 5, 2019

Myanmar has launched a National Summary Data Page (NSDP) in implementing the recommendations of the Enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS). The e-GDDS was established by the IMF in 2015 to support improved data transparency, encourage statistical development, and help create synergies between data dissemination and surveillance. The NSDP is a national “data portal” that serves as a one-stop vehicle for publishing essential macroeconomic data in both human and machine-readable formats. Myanmar has benefitted from a project on the Improvement of Data Dissemination in the Asia and Pacific Region, financed by the government of Japan, which aims to assist countries to promote data dissemination under the IMF’s data standards initiatives.

The NSDP is hosted by the Central Statistical Organization of the Ministry of Planning and Finance on its website, utilizing the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX). A link to Myanmar’s NSDP is available on the IMF’s Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board. The NSDP also contains links to statistics published by the Central Bank of Myanmar and the Ministry of Planning and Finance.

Publication of essential macroeconomic data through the NSDP will provide national policy makers and domestic and international stakeholders, including investors and rating agencies, with easy access to information critical for monitoring economic conditions and policies. Making this information easily accessible in both human and machine-readable formats will allow users to have simultaneous access to timely data and bring greater data transparency.

Louis Marc Ducharme, Chief Statistician and Data Officer, and Director of IMF’s Statistics Department, welcomed this major milestone in the country’s statistical development. “I congratulate the authorities for the launch of the NSDP, an important step forward in data dissemination. I am confident that Myanmar will benefit from using the e-GDDS as a framework for further development of its statistical system.”

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