| Summary: | This year’s edition of International Debt Statistics,
successor to Global Development Finance and
World Debt Tables, is designed to respond to user
demand for timely, comprehensive data on trends
in external debt in low- and middle-income countries.
The World Bank’s Debtor Reporting System
(DRS), from which the aggregate and country tables
presented in this report are drawn, was established
in 1951. World Debt Tables, the first publication that
included DRS external debt data, appeared in 1973
and gained increased attention during the debt crisis
of the 1980s. Since then, the publication and data
have undergone numerous revisions and iterations
to address the challenges and demands posed by the
global economic conditions. Presentation of and access to data have been
refined to improve the user experience. The online
edition of International Debt Statistics 2019 now provides
a summary overview and a select set of indicators,
while an expanded dataset is available online
(datatopics.worldbank.org /debt/ids).
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