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Debt securities statistics

Creators: BIS statistics
Publication Date: 2025-03-11
Creators: BIS statistics

This data set covers borrowing and investment activities in debt capital markets, capturing debt instruments designed to be traded in financial markets such as treasury bills, commercial paper, negotiable certificates of deposit, bonds, debentures and asset-backed securities. These statistics are harmonised with the recommendations of the Handbook on securities statistics (HSS) and distinguish between debt securities issued and held in international and domestic markets.

The data set is available at quarterly frequency for over 50 economies starting as early as 1946. It benefited from close collaboration with national central banks and national authorities, also as part of the G20 Data Gaps Initiative.

Total debt securities are issued by residents in all markets. Domestic (international) debt securities are issued in (outside) the local market of the country where the borrower resides, regardless of the currency denomination of the security. As valuation methods differ across countries, some amounts are presented at market value and others at nominal or face value.

Credit to the non-financial sector

Creators: BIS statistics
Publication Date: 2025-03-11
Creators: BIS statistics

The data set on credit to the non-financial sector captures borrowing activity by the government sector and the private non-financial sector in more than 40 economies.

Quarterly data on credit to the government sector cover on average 20 years, while those on credit to the private non-financial sector on average more than 45 years. The statistics follow the framework of the System of National Accounts.

On the lending side, two credit data series are provided. On the one hand, total credit comprises financing from all sources, including domestic banks, other domestic financial corporations, non-financial corporations and non-residents. On the other, bank credit includes credit extended by domestic banks to the private non-financial sector.

On the borrowing side, total credit to the non-financial sector is broken down into credit to the government sector and the private non-financial sector, and the latter is further split between non-financial corporations and households (including non-profit institutions serving households).

The financial instruments covered comprise currency and deposits (which are mostly zero in the case of credit to the private non-financial sector), loans and debt securities. The sum of these three instruments is defined here as “core debt”. For the government sector, core debt generally represents the bulk of total debt.

The statistics follow the framework of the System of National Accounts 2008, which stipulates that outstanding credit instruments should be valued at market values. For credit to the government, data are also provided in nominal (face) values, since these can be useful in some forms of debt sustainability analysis.

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