World Bank data on Australia's external debt stocks and flows. The dataset likely contains quarterly external debt statistics for high-income countries and emerging markets, as well as public sector debt data on valuation methods and instruments. Data are gathered from national statistical organizations, central banks, and multilateral institutions.
Use Cases
- Modeling sovereign debt sustainability based on quarterly external debt statistics.
- Analyzing public sector debt composition based on data about government tiers and debt instruments.
- Studying global financial flows using detailed debt stocks and flows for developing and high-income countries.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from authoritative institutions like national statistical organizations and central banks.
- Covers both external debt and detailed public sector debt, as described in the metadata.
- License is CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last updated 2026-04-27 18:12:56.825970; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Group
- Collection Method
- Gathered from national statistical organizations and central banks as well as by various major multilateral institutions and World Bank staff.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-27 18:12:56.825970
- Geography
- Australia