World Bank Average Grant Element on External Debt Commitments

International Debt Statistics: DSSI provides data on the average grant element for new external debt commitments, expressed as a percentage. This metric measures the concessionality or overall cost of borrowing by weighting grant elements of public and publicly guaranteed loans by their amounts. Data covers commitments for which contracts were signed in a given year.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in loan concessionality over time using the annual average grant element percentage.
• Compare borrowing costs between countries using the weighted average grant element metric.
• Assess the share of concessional finance in a country's external debt portfolio using the grant element data for public and publicly guaranteed loans.

Strengths

• Data is derived from official external debt commitments reported to the World Bank.
• Metric provides a standardized measure (grant element) for comparing loan terms across countries and years.

Limitations

• Data coverage is limited to public and publicly guaranteed external debt; private nonguaranteed debt is excluded.
• Specific sample sizes, row counts, and temporal coverage are not provided in the description.

Provenance

Source

International Debt Statistics: DSSI (World Bank)

Collection Method

Calculated from the grant equivalent of loan commitments, discounted at a conventional 10 percent rate.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Likely covers countries reporting external debt statistics to the World Bank.