Quarterly external debt statistics for Belgium, sourced from the World Bank's data portal. The data provide a detailed picture of debt stocks and flows, with a focus on enabling a more complete understanding of global financial flows. Data are gathered from national statistical organizations, central banks, and major multilateral institutions.
Use Cases
- Modeling sovereign debt sustainability based on quarterly external debt stocks and flows.
- Analyzing public sector debt composition based on described debt instruments and government tiers.
- Studying global financial flows by comparing Belgium's external debt data with other high-income countries.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from authoritative institutions like the World Bank, national statistical organizations, and central banks.
- Covers detailed aspects of debt, including public sector valuation methods and debt instruments as described.
- License is CC-BY-4.0, permitting flexible reuse with attribution.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
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 19:05:47.509195; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Belgium