World Bank's Quarterly Public Sector Debt dataset includes a series on Gross Public Sector Debt for Budgetary Central Government. The series tracks the nominal value, in US dollars, of long-term debt securities with payment due in one year or less. The data is part of the World Bank's broader collection on government financial statistics.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the short-term component of a government's debt portfolio to assess refinancing risk (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Modeling the relationship between short-term debt securities and macroeconomic indicators like interest rates (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Benchmarking a country's debt maturity profile against peer nations (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published on the World Bank platform, a major international financial institution.
- Part of a structured 'Quarterly Public Sector Debt' database with defined series.
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
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- Freshness
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