Debt Statistics

Building debt transparency and resilience across East Asia and the Pacific

The World Bank Debt Statistics Team and the Institute for Economic Development organized the workshop entitled Enhancing External Debt Statistics for Greater Transparency and Sustainability. The five-day workshop served as both a technical deep dive and a strategic dialogue on the evolving debt ecosystem.

Round 1 Results of the DRS Global Consultation

Since September 2023, the World Bank has been collaborating closely with the IMF, UNCTAD, and COMSEC to develop an updated Debtor Reporting System (DRS). We invited debt management offices, central banks, national statistical offices, relevant international organizations, and academia who have a direct interest in or experience with monitoring international sovereign debt statistics to share feedback. These are the results of the first round of feedback.

Creditors are becoming a game changer in the drive for debt transparency

After the success of the 2022 initiative, the World Bank collaborated last year with the G-7 and 11 other Paris Club members on a renewed data-sharing effort, this time focusing on loan data from 2023. Read the latest blog for key insights and highlights from the report.

G7 and Paris Club Data Reconciliation Exercise (2023 Data)

A report on the preliminary findings from the 2023 debt data sharing exercise between G7 & Paris Club countries and the World Bank. The aim is to enhance debt transparency, particularly for low- and middle-income countries, by reconciling creditor and debtor records of external public debt for countries that report to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System (DRS).

International Debt Report 2024

For more than five decades, the World Bank’s premier annual publication on debt, now titled the International Debt Report (IDR), along with the associated International Debt Statistics (IDS) database, have helped shape policies in development finance by sharing timely and comprehensive external debt data and analysis with the international community.

International Debt Statistics

The latest data from the most comprehensive and transparent source of cross comparable external debt data of low- and middle-income countries. Visit the World Bank's DataBank to explore the IDS database.

International Debt Statistics

Debt Service Suspension Initiative

Quarterly External Debt Statistics

Quarterly Public Sector Debt

Joint External Debt Hub