Gross public sector debt data from the World Bank's Quarterly Public Sector Debt database. The dataset likely contains nominal values in US dollars for long-term liabilities, including insurance, pensions, and standardized guarantee schemes, owed by budgetary central governments. It is published by the World Bank.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the composition of a government's long-term contingent liabilities (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Benchmarking national debt structures against international peers (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Modeling fiscal risk exposure from insurance and pension schemes (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published on the World Bank platform.
- Focuses on a specific, standardized debt classification (long-term, budgetary central government).
Limitations
- Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank, Quarterly Public Sector Debt database
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from official government reports and statistics.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
- Geography
- null