-
DATA IDENTIFICATION
-
-
Name
-
Debt service as a proportion of exports of goods and services
-
Indicator purpose
-
The indicator provides debt service expressed as a percentage of exports of goods and services.
-
Abstract
-
Debt service as proportion of exports of goods and services is the percentage of debt services (principle and interest payments) to the exports of goods and services. Debt services covered in this indicator refer only to public and publicly guaranteed debt.
-
Data source
-
Ministry of Finance (MOF)
-
DATA CHARACTERISTICS
-
-
Contact organization person
-
Ministry of Finance (MOF)
-
Date last updated
-
28-OCT-2019
-
Periodicity
-
Annual
-
Unit of measure
-
Percentage (%)
-
Other characteristics
-
N/A
-
DATA CONCEPTS and CLASSIFICATIONS
-
-
Classification used
-
Concepts of public and publicly guaranteed external debt data are in accordance with the sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6) methodology.
“Exports of goods and services” data concepts are in accordance with the sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6).
-
Disaggregation
-
N/A
-
Key statistical concepts
-
Public and publicly guaranteed external debt data are compiled by the World Bank based on the World Bank Debtor Reporting System Manual, dated January 2000 which sets out the reporting procedures to be used by countries. The data are provided by the countries on a loan by loan basis.
“Exports of goods and services” data are sourced from IMF’s Balance of Payments Statistics database and then gap-filled with World Bank staff estimates in accordance with the sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6)
Both components are used to express the indicator in percentage terms.
-
Formula
-
-
-
OTHER ASPECTS
-
-
Recommended uses
-
This indicator is used to measure development and welfare objectives met by the government.
-
Limitations
-
N/A
-
Other comments
-
All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.