International Development Association (IDA) concessional debt outstanding data tracks public and publicly guaranteed loans with a grant element of 35 percent or more. The dataset originates from the World Bank's International Debt Statistics: DSSI initiative. It measures debt service payments and the overall cost of borrowing in current U.S. dollars.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in IDA concessional debt outstanding amounts over time.
- Calculate the grant element percentage for loans to assess their concessionality.
- Model the relationship between debt service payments and other economic indicators.
- Compare concessional debt levels across different IDA-eligible countries.
Strengths
- Data is defined using a standardized metric for concessionality (grant element of 35% or more).
- Debt service payments are calculated as the sum of principal repayments and interest payments.
Limitations
- The specific number of countries, rows of data, and time coverage are unknown.
- Data is presented only in current U.S. dollars, lacking inflation-adjusted figures.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank International Debt Statistics: DSSI
- Collection Method
- Compiled from reported public and publicly guaranteed debt statistics.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- IDA-eligible countries, specific list unknown.