Average Maturity of New Official External Debt Commitments

Average maturity on new external debt commitments, official (years) provides a weighted average of the years to maturity for loans from governments and international organizations. The data is compiled by the International Debt Statistics: DSSI team at the World Bank, using loan amounts to weight the maturity calculations for public and publicly guaranteed debt. The specific time range and update frequency for this series are not specified in the provided metadata.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in the weighted average maturity of new official debt commitments over time to assess changes in creditor terms.
• Compare loan maturity periods between bilateral government loans and multilateral loans from international organizations.
• Model the relationship between debt maturity and other economic indicators using the time-series feature of this dataset.
• Assess the grace and repayment period structures embedded within the calculated average maturity metric for sovereign debt.

Strengths

• Data is derived from the authoritative International Debt Statistics (DSSI) database at the World Bank.
• Calculations use a specific methodology, weighting loan maturity by the amounts of the loans for accuracy.

Limitations

• The exact number of underlying loan records, time coverage, and update schedule are unknown.
• The dataset is limited to public and publicly guaranteed debt from official creditors, excluding private sector debt.

Provenance

Source

World Bank International Debt Statistics: DSSI

Collection Method

Calculated from loan-level data on public and publicly guaranteed external debt commitments, weighted by loan amounts.

Geography

Likely covers borrowing countries eligible for DSSI or World Bank reporting, but specific coverage is not stated.