Quarterly External Debt Statistics SDDS provides data on the gross external debt position of deposit-taking corporations, excluding central banks. The dataset likely contains long-term loan transactions denominated in US dollars. It is published by the World Bank as part of its financial statistics collections.
Use Cases
- Modeling sovereign and corporate credit risk exposure (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Analyzing trends in long-term external borrowing by financial institutions (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Benchmarking a country's financial sector debt against peers (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published on the World Bank platform.
- Part of the Quarterly External Debt Statistics SDDS initiative.
Limitations
- Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank / Quarterly External Debt Statistics SDDS
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from official national reports and financial statements.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Quarterly
- Geography
- null