Italy's External and Public Sector Debt Statistics from the World Bank

Quarterly data on Italy's external debt stocks and flows, sourced from the World Bank's data portal. The dataset likely contains detailed information on public sector debt valuation, instruments, and tiers for central, state, and local government. It was last updated on 2026-04-28.

Use Cases

• Modeling sovereign debt sustainability based on quarterly external debt statistics.
• Analyzing public sector debt composition based on described valuation methods and instrument types.
• Comparing debt tiers for central, state, and local government entities as mentioned in the description.
• Tracking global financial flows using the detailed picture of debt stocks and flows for developing and high-income countries.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from authoritative institutions like national statistical organizations, central banks, and the World Bank.
• Provides a quarterly temporal resolution for tracking debt dynamics.
• Covers multiple tiers of government debt, including central, state, and local levels.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2026-04-28 04:08:05.810524; freshness should be verified.

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.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28.

Geography

Italy