Dataset properties:

• Measurements: Billions of national currency units (Bil. NCU), percent of GDP (%)
• Geo coverage: 190 individual countries
• Do all concept-geo pairs exist: No
• Native frequency: Annual
• Start date: Varies; between 1950 and 2015

The series reside in the historical catalog (Cross-Country Datasets » International Monetary Fund (IMF) » Global Debt Database) and include, for example:

• IMFGDDLGDPUA.ICMR = Nominal gross domestic product (Bil. NCU) - for Cameroon
• IMFGDD%RNTUA.IROU = Total private - All instruments, (% of GDP) - for Romania
• IMFGDD%PUTUA.IARG = Public sector debt (% of GDP) - for Argentina

Because catalog locations are subject to change, the upper-right search box on DataBuffet.com provides a "find in catalog" mode that accepts a mnemonic.

References

• Global Debt Database: Methods and sources (May 2018)
• Global Debt Database: IMF DataMapper

See also

• Other IMF datasets