Average Grace Periods for Official External Debt Commitments

Average grace period on new external debt commitments from official creditors, weighted by loan amounts. The data is compiled by the International Debt Statistics: DSSI organization from the World Bank. It covers public and publicly guaranteed loans from governments and international organizations.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in average grace period over time for official debt commitments.
• Comparing grace period terms between multilateral and bilateral loan categories.
• Modeling the relationship between grace period and other sovereign debt indicators.

Strengths

• Data is weighted by loan amounts to calculate a representative average.
• Clearly defines official creditors to include multilateral organizations and governments.

Limitations

• Sample size, row count, and specific temporal coverage are unknown.
• Underlying loan-level data and specific calculation methodology details are not provided.

Provenance

Source

World Bank - International Debt Statistics: DSSI

Collection Method

Calculated from public and publicly guaranteed loan commitments, weighted by loan amounts.