World Bank data on Switzerland's external debt stocks and flows, last updated on 2026-04-27. The dataset provides a detailed picture of debt for developing, high-income, and emerging market countries to understand global financial flows. It includes quarterly external debt statistics and public sector debt data gathered from national statistical organizations, central banks, and multilateral institutions.
Use Cases
- Modeling national debt sustainability based on quarterly external debt statistics.
- Analyzing global financial flows based on detailed debt stocks and flows for high-income and emerging markets.
- Studying public sector debt composition based on data covering central, state, and local government tiers.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from authoritative institutions like the World Bank, national statistical organizations, and central banks.
- Covers multiple tiers of public sector debt, including central, state, and local government.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
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 2026-04-27 22:34:57.031952; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Switzerland