• Access the World Banks Global Development Finance (GDF) data

Dataset description and subject overview

The World Bank's Global Development Finance database contains more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for over 120 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. The database covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections. These data run from 1970 onwards where available.

• Development indicators (publications.worldbank.org/GDF/indicators)
• Countries (publications.worldbank.org/GDF/countries)

The main topics in the GDF are as follows:

• Total debt stocks
• Total debt flows
• Stock-flow reconciliation
• Resource flows
• Long-term debt
• Debt outstanding and disbursed
• Disbursements
• Principal repayments
• Net flows
• Interest payments
• Net transfers on debt
• Debt service
• Undisbursed debt
• Restructurings
• Debt ratios
• Macroeconomic aggregates
• Currency composition of long-term debt
• Average terms of new commitments

User Documentation

The World Bank Group produces a print version of Global Development Finance.

Published annually by the World Bank, the Global Development Finance report combines a diagnosis of recent trends and prospects for capital flows to developing countries with an analysis of important policy issues:

• Global Development Finance 2009: Charting a Global Recovery (www.worldbank.org/gdf2009)
• Global Development Finance 2008: The Role of International Banking (www.worldbank.org/gdf2008)
• Global Development Finance 2007:
  The Globalization of Corporate Finance in Developing Countries (www.worldbank.org/gdf2007)
• Global Development Finance 2006:
  The Development Potential of Surging Capital Flows (www.worldbank.org/gdf2006)
• Global Development Finance 2005:
  Mobilizing Finance and Managing Vulnerability (go.worldbank.org/VJHSUH1IP0)
• Global Development Finance 2004:
  Harnessing Cyclical Gains for Development I: Analysis and Summary Tables
• Global Development Finance 2003:
  Striving for Stability in Development Finance (go.worldbank.org/36VPO77NA0)
• Global Development Finance 2002:
  Financing the Poorest Countries (go.worldbank.org/E2QEFR7FT0)

The World Bank provides:

• World Bank Data section: http://data.worldbank.org/
• How to access World Bank data via Beyond 20/20 user guide: www.esds.ac.uk/international/support/user_guides/wb/wbgdfwe.asp
• World Bank Data Overview: http://data.worldbank.org/about/data-overview
• How the World Bank class Countries: http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications
• Acronyms and Abbreviations: http://data.worldbank.org/about/faq/acronyms-abbreviations
• World Banks Specific Data Series information: http://data.worldbank.org/about/faq/specific-data-series
  

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Accessing the Global Development Finance

As a result of the World Bank's Open Data initiative the World Bank datasets hosted by ESDS International are now freely available to all. Please refer to the Terms of Use for Datasets in The World Bank's Data Catalog.

Countries in the Global Development Finance

A list of the countries presented in the Global Development Finance Database is provided at publications.worldbank.org/GDF/countries

Periodicity and Time Range

The Global Development Finance database contains annual time series data from 1970 onwards where available. At ESDS International the database is updated annually. See the latest data update page for further information.