| Table Name | Germany |
| 1.0 Contact Information | |
| 1.1 Name | Silvia von Ledebur |
| 1.2 Designation (Job Title) | Head of Unit |
| 1.3 Organization | Deutsche Bundesbank |
| 1.4 Mailing Address | Deutsche Bundesbank |
| 1.5 Country | Germany |
| 1.6 Email | silvia.ledebur@bundesbank.de |
| 1.7 Telephone | 0049-6131-377-8368 |
| 2.0 Concepts, Definitions and Scope | |
| 2.1 Statistical frameworks for the compilation of external debt data | 2013 External Debt Statistics Guide/6th Edition of Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6) |
| 2.2 Consistency with the external debt liabilities of the International Investment Position (IIP) | Yes |
| 2.3 Additional Information on Concepts, Definitions and Scope | None |
| 3.0 Sector Classification/Coverage | |
| 3.1 Data coverage for General Government | Fully covered |
| 3.2 Data coverage for Central Bank | Fully covered |
| 3.3 Data coverage for Deposit-taking corporations, except the Central Bank | Fully covered |
| 3.4 Data coverage for Other Sectors | Fully covered |
| 3.5 Data coverage for Other financial corporations | Fully covered |
| 3.6 Data coverage for Nonfinancial corporations | Fully covered |
| 3.7 Data coverage for Households and nonprofit institutions serving households (NPISHs) | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 3.8 Data coverage for Direct Investment: Intercompany lending | Fully covered |
| 3.9 External debt statistics presented into Public and Publicly Guar. Private Sector and Private Sector Not Publicly Guar. Debt | No |
| 3.10 External debt include both foreign currency and domestic currency denominated debt instruments held by nonresidents | Yes |
| 3.11 Additional comments and explanations on Sector Classification/Coverage | None |
| 4.0 Debt Instrument Classification/Coverage | |
| 4.1 Data coverage for Currency and deposits | Fully covered |
| 4.2 Data coverage for Debt Securities | Fully covered |
| 4.3 Data coverage for Loans | Fully covered |
| 4.4 Data coverage for Trade credit and advances | Fully covered |
| 4.5 Data coverage for Other debt liabilities | Fully covered |
| 4.6 Data coverage for Special drawing rights (allocations) | Fully covered |
| 4.7 Data coverage for Debt liabilities of direct investment enterprises to direct investors | Fully covered |
| 4.8 Data coverage for Debt liabilities of direct investors to direct investment enterprises | Fully covered |
| 4.9 Data coverage for Debt liabilities to fellow enterprises | Fully covered |
| 4.10 Arrears (including interest that accrues on arrears) reported in the same debt instrument | No - not part of the reporting framework. |
| 4.11 Arrears separately identified in the memorandum items | No |
| 4.12 Classification of maturity for short-term/long-term debt instruments | Original maturity |
| 4.13 Additional comments and explanations on Debt Instrument Classification/Coverage | (i) SDR allocations are included starting from 2001Q2. |
| 5.0 Valuation and Basis of Recording | |
| 5.1 Main valuation method for debt securities (in main table) | Market Value |
| 5.2 Main valuation method for debt securities (in memorandum items) | Not reporting debt securities in memorandum items. |
| 5.3 Other methods and weights used for valuation of debt securities | In order to calculate market values, BoP flows during the reporting period are converted into nominal transactions and added to the nominal stocks of the previous reporting date. The conversion is performed using average market prices and, possibly, exchange rates for individual instruments and sectors. Finally, the new nominal stocks are converted into market values using the market prices and exchange rates as at the reporting date. However, the data for short-term debt securities are compiled by modified accumulation of flows; market valuation is not applied. |
| 5.4 Basis for compiling external debt statistics | Accrual Basis |
| 5.5 Inclusion of accrued interest costs that are not paid | Yes |
| 6.0 Data sources/Compiling Organizations | |
| 6.1 Main data source(s) for the external debt statistics | Data sources: Germany’s external debt data is compiled mainly on the basis of several stock statistics. The main data sources are:
(i) the monthly stock statistics on the external liabilities of domestic MFIs and of domestic enterprises and general government arising from financial operations and trade credits;
(ii) the annual statistics on direct investment positions, which are used for compiling foreign direct investment stocks;
(iii) the accounts of the Deutsche Bundesbank for monetary authorities´ liabilities;
(iv)the portfolio investment liabilities are derived from modified accumulated flows. In order to calculate market values, BoP flows during the reporting period are converted into nominal transactions and added to the nominal stocks of the previous reporting date. The conversion is performed using average market prices and, possibly, exchange rates for individual instruments and sectors. Finally, the new nominal stocks are converted into market values using the market prices and exchange rates as at the reporting date. However, the data for short-term debt securities are compiled by modified accumulation of flows; market valuation is not applied.
(v) secondary data sources for cross-checking purposes (e. g. securities holdings statistics of the Deutsche Bundesbank). |
| 6.2 Link(s) to national website where the external debt statistics are being disseminated | http://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/EN/Standardartikel/Statistics/external_debt.html |
| 6.3 Link(s) to relevant metadata that currently exists and is consistent with your external debt statistics | http://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/EN/Standardartikel/Statistics/external_debt.html http://dsbb.imf.org/Pages/SDDS/CtyCtgBaseList.aspx?ctycode=DEU&catcode=EXD00 |
| 6.4 Primary agency responsible for compiling external debt statistics | Deutsche Bundesbank |
| 6.5 Primary agency responsibile for disseminating external debt statistics | Deutsche Bundesbank |
| 7.0 Periodicity and Timeliness | |
| 7.1 Frequency of external debt statistics compilation | Quarterly |
| 7.2 Frequency of external debt statistics dissemination | Quarterly |
| 7.3 Timeliness of the publication of the external debt statistics | T+3 months |
| 7.4 Additional comments on Periodicity and Timeliness | None |
| 8.0 Revision Policy | |
| 8.1 Data revision policy | Regular schedule -Data are preliminary when first released. When first publishing the provisional External Debt figures for the most re-cent quarter, the data for the previous quarter are revised. Simultaneously to the dissemination of IIP data in September, all External Debt data for the four previous years and for the first quarter of the actual year are revised due to the availability of more detailed data sources. Further revisions may occur due to exceptional circumstances. This is in line with the revision schedule / policy for the quarterly German IIP. |
| 9.0 Unit of Measure | |
| 9.1 Unit of Measure | Data are in USD. |
| 10.0 Reference Period | |
| 10.1 Reference Period | (i) Data are available starting from 2001Q2. (ii) Data converted through generic conversion from 2003 EDS Guide/BPM5 to 2013 EDS Guide/BPM6 basis by the World Bank from 2002Q2 to 2007Q4. (iii) Data reported by country on a 2013 EDS Guide/BPM6 basis starting from 2008Q1. (iv) As per 2013 EDS Guide/BPM6 methodology, data includes SDR allocations sourced from IMF (the creditor) for period 2001Q2 to 2007Q4, and reported by the country from 2008Q1 onward. |
| 11.0 Table Reporting | |
| 11.1 Table 1 - Gross External Debt Position: by Sector (Prescribed component) | Yes |
| 11.2 Table 2 - Gross External Debt Position: Foreign Currency and Domestic Currency Denominated Debt (Encouraged component) | Yes |
| 11.3 Table 3 - Debt-Service Payment Schedule for Outstanding External Debt as of End-Period: by Sector (Encouraged component) | No |
| 11.4 Table 4-Gross External Debt Position:Principal and Interest Payments Due in 1 Yr or less -by Sector (Encouraged component) | No |
| 11.5 Table 1.1 - Gross External Debt Position: Debt Securities - Reconciliation of Nominal and Market Value | No |
| 11.6 Table 1.2 - Gross External Debt Position: Other Sectors | No |
| 11.7 Table 1.3 - Gross External Debt Position: Public Sector Debt and Publicly-Guaranteed Private Sector Debt | No |
| 11.8 Table 1.4 - Gross External Debt Position: Arrears by Sector | No |
| 11.9 Table 1.5 - Net External Debt Position: by Sector | Yes |
| 11.10 Table 1.6 - Gross External Debt Position: Reconciliation of Positions and Flows | No |
| 11.11 Table 2.1 - Gross External Foreign Currency and Foreign-Currency-Linked Debt Position | Yes |
| 11.12 Table 3.1 - Gross External Debt Position: Short-Term Remaining Maturity - by Sector | No |
| 11.13 Table 3.2 - Debt-Service Payment Schedule for Outstanding External Debt as of End-Period: by Sector and Instrument | No |
| 12.0 Metadata Update | |
| 12.1 Metadata last updated | 12/14/2016 |