Quarterly External Debt Statistics: International Lending Transactions in USD

Quarterly External Debt Statistics SDDS provides data on gross external debt positions and direct investment intercompany lending. The dataset covers transactions for all maturities and instruments, denominated in US dollars. It is published by the World Bank.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in international lending and external debt positions (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Modeling financial risk exposure for countries or sectors (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Benchmarking quarterly debt statistics for economic reports (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on the World Bank platform.
• Categorized with platform tags including 'Financial Transactions' and 'Time Series'.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count, file formats, and last update date are unknown.

Provenance

Source

World Bank / Quarterly External Debt Statistics SDDS

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official national and international financial reports.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the input.

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Spatial coverage is not specified in the input.