Data & Python
IMF forecasts 3.2% US inflation rate in 2026
The April 2026 IMF World Economic Outlook is out. Headline forecasts for 2026:
- US inflation: 3.2%
- US GDP growth: 2.3% (+0.2 vs. October 2025)
- World GDP growth: 3.1% (unchanged vs. October 2025)
To make it easier to track how these forecasts evolve, I built the IMF WEO Tracker — a new tool that visualizes and compares WEO vintages going back to 1990, across 196 countries and key indicators. You can see where forecasts converged, where they missed, and how they were revised as new data arrived.