The standards were developed by an international initiative that aims at standardising and modernising ("industrialising") the mechanisms and processes for the exchange of statistical data and metadata among international organisations and their member countries. The SDMX sponsoring institutions are the
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the
European Central Bank (ECB),
Eurostat (the statistical office of the European Union), the
International Monetary Fund (IMF), the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the
United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), and the
World Bank. These organisations are the main players at world and regional levels in the collection of official statistics in a large variety of domains (agriculture statistics, economic and financial statistics, social statistics, environment statistics etc.).
Version history Version 1.0 of the SDMX standard was recognised as an ISO standard in 2005. SDMX version 2.1 was released in May 2011, and was approved by ISO as International Standard (ISO 17369:2013) in 2013. SDMX version 3.0 was published in September 2021. == Technical standards ==