World Bank data provides quarterly external debt statistics for high-income countries and emerging markets, including Puerto Rico. The dataset also includes public sector debt data covering valuation methods, debt instruments, and tiers of government. Data are gathered from national statistical organizations, central banks, and major multilateral institutions.
Use Cases
- Analyze external debt stocks and flows for Puerto Rico based on quarterly statistics.
- Compare public sector debt structures based on data covering central, state, and local government tiers.
- Model global financial flows using detailed debt data from high-income and emerging markets.
- Study debt instrument valuation methods based on the public sector debt database description.
Strengths
- Data sourced from authoritative institutions like national statistical organizations and central banks.
- Covers both external debt and detailed public sector debt, as described.
- License is CC-BY-4.0, allowing for open use and redistribution.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
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.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 10:29:19.767811; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Puerto Rico (US)