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Disbursements on external debt, central bank

Central bank long-term debt are aggregated. The central bank is the financial institution (or institutions) that exercises control over key aspects of the financial system. The monetary authority, normally the agency that issues currency and holds the country’s international reserves. Disbursements are drawings by the borrower on loan commitments during the year specified. Long-term external debt is defined as debt that has an original or extended maturity of more than one year and that is owed to nonresidents by residents of an economy and repayable in currency, goods, or services. Data are in current U.S. dollars. Reported as: PPG. All creditors combined (IDS counterpart area: World); figures by creditor are not carried.

Coverage
73 of 238 countries
Latest data
2025
Series
73
Unit
current USD
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-05
Indicator
disbursements-on-external-debt-central-bank
Interva ID
worldbank-disbursements-on-external-debt-central-bank

Recency

current

data to 2025; 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 2025; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 0 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

75%

61 of 73 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 75% 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 73 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 16 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

5 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

Disbursements on external debt, central bank for each of the 73 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania20250current USD
Algeria20250current USD
Armenia202526.63Mcurrent USD
Bhutan20250current USD
Burundi20250current USD
Central African Republic20250current USD
Dominican Republic20250current USD
Egypt20254.18Bcurrent USD
El Salvador20250current USD
Ghana20250current 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

    World Bank

    World Bank, International Debt Statistics.

    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
  • 2026-11-065 observation(s) restatedchecksum not recorded

Related datasets

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). Disbursements on external debt, central bank. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-disbursements-on-external-debt-central-bank (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-disbursements-on-external-debt-central-bank,
  title        = {Disbursements on external debt, central bank},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-disbursements-on-external-debt-central-bank}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-disbursements-on-external-debt-central-bank; 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.

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