Iraq External Debt Statistics from World Bank Quarterly Data

World Bank data provides a detailed picture of debt stocks and flows for developing countries. The Quarterly External Debt Statistics enable a more complete understanding of global financial flows for high-income countries and emerging markets. Data are gathered from national statistical organizations, central banks, and major multilateral institutions.

Use Cases

• Modeling sovereign debt sustainability based on quarterly external debt statistics.
• Analyzing global financial flows based on detailed debt stocks and flows data.
• Studying public sector debt structure based on valuation methods and instrument types.
• Comparing debt tiers for central, state, and local government entities.

Strengths

• Data sourced from authoritative institutions like the World Bank, national statistical organizations, and central banks.
• License is CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse with attribution.
• Includes detailed breakdowns of public sector debt by valuation methods, instruments, and government tiers.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified despite a last updated date of 2026-04-28.

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.

Time Range

Quarterly time series (inferred from description).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 03:59:02.417722

Geography

Iraq