World Bank data on Bhutan's external debt stocks and flows, part of the Quarterly External Debt Statistics and Quarterly Public Sector Debt databases. The data includes details on debt instruments, valuation methods, and tiers of government debt. Data are gathered from national statistical organizations, central banks, and multilateral institutions.
Use Cases
- Modeling sovereign debt sustainability based on detailed debt stock and flow data.
- Analyzing public sector financial health based on debt data for central, state, and local government tiers.
- Studying global financial flows to emerging markets based on quarterly external debt statistics.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from authoritative institutions like national statistical organizations and central banks.
- Covers multiple tiers of government debt, including central, state, local, and extra-budgetary agencies.
- License is CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad 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 22:17:19.476676; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Bhutan