Context

Now in its forty-eighth year, International Debt Statistics (IDS) supports policymakers and analysts by monitoring aggregate and country-specific trends in external debt in low- and middle-income countries. It provides a comprehensive picture of external borrowing and sources of lending by type of borrower and creditor with information on data availability and comparability. To further enhance debt transparency, this year’s report introduces additional features, such additional information on average lending terms by creditor country and the currency composition of debt stock. The Central Bank is also featured separately in the borrower composition along with its debt instruments. In addition, the IDS-DSSI database includes the actual debt service deferred in 2020 by each bilateral creditor and the projected monthly debt-service payments owed to all bilateral creditors for year 2021. The IDS 2022 publication provides a select set of indicators, with an expanded data set available online.

International Debt Statistics (IDS), successor to Global Development Finance and World Debt Tables, is designed to respond to user demand for timely, comprehensive data on trends in external debt in low- and middle-income countries. The World Bank’s Debtor Reporting System (DRS), from which the aggregate and country tables presented in this report are drawn, was established in 1951. World Debt.

Source

https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0038015/international-debt-statistics

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Metadata

• Coverage & Extent
  Geographical Coverage : East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia
  Granularity List : National
  Temporal Coverage: 1970 - 2027
  Periodicity : Annual

Additional Metadata

Acronym IDS
Recommended Citation International Debt Statistics, The World Bank
Languages Supported English
Source Type World Bank Group
Source: International Debt Statistics, The World Bank
Harvest Source World Bank Data API
Harvest System ID 6

Dates

First Published Date: Dec 19, 2012
Update Frequency: Annual
Update Schedule: October