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Debt forgiveness grants

Debt forgiveness grants data cover both debt cancelled by agreement between debtor and creditor and a reduction in the net present value of non-ODA debt achieved by concessional rescheduling or refinancing. The data are on a disbursement basis and cover flows from all bilateral and multilateral donors. Data are in current U.S. dollars. All creditors combined (IDS counterpart area: World); figures by creditor are not carried.

Coverage
100 of 238 countries
Latest data
2024
Series
100
Unit
current USD
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-05
Indicator
debt-forgiveness-grants
Interva ID
worldbank-debt-forgiveness-grants

Recency

current

data to 2024; catalog to 2025

Provenance

2 steps

as the publisher declares it

Versions

2

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.

Recency

100%

Latest observation is 2024; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 1 year(s) behind (current).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

94%

62 of 100 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 94% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 100 of the 238 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 22 observations; the earliest begins in 1970.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

14 observation(s) restated by the publisher across 1 vintage(s) Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.

By country

Debt forgiveness grants for each of the 100 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan20247.05Mcurrent USD
Algeria20248.30Mcurrent USD
Bosnia and Herzegovina20242.43Mcurrent USD
Burundi20241.76Mcurrent USD
Comoros2024660,260current USD
Congo20248681current USD
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the2024674,000current USD
Guinea-Bissau20242.40Mcurrent USD
Liberia2024134,000current USD
Malawi202416,400current USD

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim

    Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    International Debt Statistics

    declared by worldbank in source

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
  • 2026-11-0614 observation(s) restatedchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

World Bank (2026). Debt forgiveness grants. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-debt-forgiveness-grants (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-debt-forgiveness-grants,
  title        = {Debt forgiveness grants},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-debt-forgiveness-grants}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-debt-forgiveness-grants; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
  urldate      = {2026-11-07}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

API access

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