External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users

Manuals & Guides, June 25, 2003

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Bibliographic details

• Published: June 25, 2003
• Series: Manuals & Guides
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589060609.069

Overview

• Publication date: June 25, 2003
• Core purpose: Provides guidance on the concepts, definitions, and classifications of gross external debt of the public and private sectors, and on the sources, compilation techniques, and analytical uses of these data.
• Supersedes: External Debt: Definition, Statistical Coverage, and Methodology (known as the Gray Book), 1988.

Conceptual framework and standards

• Derives from:
  • System of National Accounts 1993
  • The fifth edition of the IMF’s Balance of Payments Manual(1993)
• Coverage focus:
  • Gross external debt of public and private sectors
  • Concepts, definitions, classifications, sources, compilation techniques, analytical uses

Preparation and contributors

• Prepared by an Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics chaired by the IMF and involving representatives from:
  • BIS
  • Commonwealth Secretariat
  • European Central Bank
  • Eurostat
  • OECD
  • Paris Club Secretariat
  • UNCTAD
  • World Bank

Key features and contents

• Length: 328 pages
• Topics emphasized:
  • Definition and measurement of external debt
  • Statistical coverage and methodology
  • Sources and compilation techniques
  • Analytical uses of external debt data
  • Treatment of financial derivatives, loans, securities, and related instruments in external debt statistics

Subject classification and keywords

• Subject: Currencies, Economic and financial statistics, External debt, External sector statistics, Financial derivatives, Financial institutions, Loans, Money, Securities
• Keywords: Africa, Currencies, debt, debt liability, debt position, East Africa, External sector statistics, Financial derivatives, Global, interest cost, liability, Loans, M&G, Securities, security taker, security transaction, short-term debt, Southern Africa, unit of account, West Africa

Publication metadata

• Pages: 328
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589060609.069
• ISBN: 9781589060609
• ISSN: 2663-3744
• Stock No: EDSCEA

Availability and formats

• Available formats: PDF and other formats on IMF eLibrary
• Also available in: русский, español, français, 中文, العربية
• Citation example provided on the page:
  • International Monetary Fund. External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed 9/22/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589060609.069

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