Singapore's external debt statistics from the World Bank's data portal. The data likely contains detailed pictures of debt stocks and flows, including quarterly external debt statistics for high-income countries and emerging markets, and public sector debt data. The dataset was last updated on 2026-04-28 and is provided under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Modeling sovereign debt sustainability based on quarterly external debt statistics.
- Analyzing public sector debt composition based on valuation methods and debt instruments mentioned in the description.
- Studying global financial flows using detailed debt stocks and flows data for developing countries.
- Comparing debt tiers for central, state, and local government based on the public sector debt database.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from the World Bank, a major multilateral institution.
- Description indicates data is gathered from national statistical organizations and central banks.
- License is clearly stated as CC-BY-4.0.
- Last update timestamp is precisely provided as 2026-04-28 10:57:46.215776.
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
- Data are 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 10:57:46.215776; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Singapore