The World Bank The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. It is the largest and best-known development bank in the world and an observer at the United Nations Development Gr ...

’s Global Development Finance, External Debt of Developing Countries (GDF) is the sole repository for statistics on the external debt of developing countries on a loan-by-loan basis. This edition of GDF presents reported or estimated data on the total external debt of all low-and middle-income countries in both electronic and print formats. Data are shown for 128 individual countries that report to the World Bank's Debtor reporting System (DRS). GDF includes over 200 time series indicators from 1970 to 2009, for most reporting countries.

Methodology and scope

GDF focuses on financial flows, trends in external debt, major economic aggregates, key debt ratios, average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, scheduled debt service projections,World Bank Global Development Finance
/ref> and other major financial indicators for developing countries. The online database is updated twice a year, once in January and another in April, coinciding with the

World Development Indicators World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s premier compilation of international statistics on global development. Drawing from officially recognized sources and including national, regional, and global estimates, the WDI provides acce ...

database update. The GDF publication is released once a year in the month of January.

Accessing the data

The World Bank’
Open Data
site provides access to the GDF database free of charge to all users. A selection of GDF data is featured a
data.worldbank.org
Users can browse the data by Country, Indicators, Topics, an
Data Catalog
GDF is listed in the catalog and can be accessed directly vi
dataBank
The

Economic and Social Data Service The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is a national data archiving and dissemination service that was founded in January 2003. It is funded jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Jisc. In July 2012, the ESRC announce ...

(ESDS) International provides the macro-economic datasets free of charge for members of UK higher and further education institutions. In order to access the data, users have to be registered which can be don
here

References

External links

*World Bank
Global Development Finance
latest edition, retrieved March 6, 2011
World Bank Open Data
retrieved March 6, 2011
About ESDS International
retrieved September 14, 2009

Methodology and scope

Accessing the data

References

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