Summary information

Study title

World Bank International Debt Statistics, 1970-2026

Creator

World Bank Group

Study number / PID

4813 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-4813-3 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


The World Bank International Debt Statistics (previosuly Global Development Finance) contains more debt and financial flows indicators for countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. The database runs from 1970 onwards and covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring and scheduled debt service projections.

These data were first provided by the UK Data Service in February 2004.

Main Topics:

  • total debt stocks
  • total debt flows
  • stock-flow reconciliation
  • resource flows
  • long-term debt
  • debt outstanding and disbursed
  • disbursements
  • principal repayments
  • net flows
  • interest payments
  • net transfers on debt
  • debt service
  • undisbursed debt
  • restructuring debt
  • debt ratios
  • macroeconomic aggregates
  • currency composition of long-term debt
  • average terms of new commitments

Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

Afghanistan, Multi-nation, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Channel Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Curacao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Europe, European Union Countries (1993-), Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany (October 1990-), Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent, Saotome, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Surinam, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (USA), Zambia, Zimbabwe

Time dimension

Time Series
Annual. These data are updated annually.

Analysis unit

Administrative units (geographical/political)
Cross-national
National

Universe

Not available

Sampling procedure

Not available

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Not available

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2004

Terms of data access

As a result of the World Bank's Open Data initiative the World Bank datasets hosted by the UK Data Service are freely available to all. Please refer to the Terms of Use for Datasets in The World Bank's Data Catalog.

Related publications

Not available