Statistics on External Debt. BIS-IMF-OECD-WB
 
Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, UNAM
Centro de  Documentación e Información
Programa de Servicios de Bancos de Información

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en información económica
Victor Medina
31 May 2006
This site provides the latest international data available, mainly from creditor sources, on the external debt of developing and transition countries and territories.

The information is presented in the form of a table updated quarterly (last day of February, May, August, and November).

Note that for OECD data series (items D,F,I and L) the latest figures available are for end-December 2003.

The complete set of tables is available as an online database, in PDF format and in an Excel workbook.

The table shows:

  • the stock of debt, with a minimum two-month lag, for the last five quarters and the previous December; and
  • flow figures for the latest complete year and three recent quarters.
A background summary and metadata describe each of the 14 data series presented (see also note on totals).

The purpose of the site is to facilitate timely and frequent access by a broad range of users to one data set that brings together data that are currently compiled and published by the contributing international agencies on components of countries' external debt and international reserve assets (BIS Quarterly Review: International banking and financial market developments, IMF International Financial Statistics, OECD External Debt Statistics, World Bank Global Development Finance).