Average Maturity of New External Public Debt Commitments

Average maturity on new external debt commitments (years) is a World Bank indicator tracking the weighted-average time to maturity for new public and publicly guaranteed loans. The data is compiled by the International Debt Statistics: DSSI team, aggregating loan-level information from sovereign borrowers. Specific row counts and update frequency are not provided.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in the 'average maturity' metric to assess changes in creditor risk appetite and lending conditions over time.
• Model sovereign default risk by correlating shorter 'average maturity' periods with other economic stress indicators.
• Compare 'average maturity' across different country groups to evaluate disparities in access to long-term financing.
• Weight loan 'maturity' by the 'amounts of the loans' to replicate the indicator's calculation methodology for validation or extension.

Strengths

• Indicator is derived from detailed loan-level data for 'all public and publicly guaranteed loans'.
• Calculation methodology is explicitly defined, weighting loan maturity by loan amounts.

Limitations

• The dataset provides only the final aggregated indicator, not the underlying loan-level records for granular analysis.
• Sample size, temporal coverage, and specific country coverage are not detailed in the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

International Debt Statistics: DSSI (World Bank).

Collection Method

Aggregated from loan-level data on external obligations of public debtors and publicly guaranteed private debtors.

Geography

Likely covers countries reporting external debt statistics to the World Bank, but specific coverage is unknown.