| Table Name | Lebanon |
| 1.0 Contact Information | |
| 1.1 Name | Daina Osta |
| 1.2 Designation (Job Title) | Head of Section |
| 1.3 Organization | Central Bank of Lebanon |
| 1.4 Mailing Address | Financial Operations Dept, P.O. Box 11 5544, Beirut |
| 1.5 Country | Lebanon |
| 1.6 Email | dosta@bdl.gov.lb |
| 1.7 Telephone | 0096117500000 ext 4270 |
| 2.0 Concepts, Definitions and Scope | |
| 2.1 Statistical frameworks for the compilation of external debt data | 2003 External Debt Statistics Guide (2003 EDS Guide)/5th Edition of Balance of Payments Manual (BPM5) |
| 2.2 Consistency with the external debt liabilities of the International Investment Position (IIP) | No - Only provide Table 1 and 2 of QEDS. The data provided consists of the government's foreign currency loans and bonds. |
| 2.3 Additional Information on Concepts, Definitions and Scope | Data provided in QEDS includes Lebanon's "Foreign Currency Public Debt" rather than "External Public Debt". It consists of Contacted Loans, Eurobonds, and Special Bonds (Bonds for contractors and expropriation bonds) which are all in foreign currencies. A big percentage of Eurobonds is held by local banks. The amount of Lebanese Treasury Securities held by nonresidents is not included in the tables of QEDS but specified in a footnote. |
| 3.0 Sector Classification/Coverage | |
| 3.1 Data coverage for Public Sector External Debt | Fully covered |
| 3.2 Data coverage for Publicly-Guaranteed Private Sector External Debt | Not covered |
| 3.3 Data coverage for Private Sector External Debt Not Publicly Guaranteed | Not covered |
| 3.4 Data coverage for Central Government | Fully covered |
| 3.5 Data coverage for General Government | Fully covered |
| 3.6 Data coverage for Nonfinancial public sector | Not covered |
| 3.7 Data coverage for Total financial and nonfinancial public sector | Not covered |
| 3.8 Data coverage for General Government if reporting Table 6 (SDDS prescribed component) | Not covered |
| 3.9 Data coverage for Central Bank if reporting Table 6 (SDDS prescribed component) | Not covered |
| 3.10 Data coverage for Deposit-taking corporations, except the Central Bank if reporting Table 6 (SDDS prescribed component) | Not covered |
| 3.11 Data coverage for Other Sectors if reporting Table 6 (SDDS prescribed component) | Not covered |
| 3.12 Data coverage for Other financial corporations if reporting Table 6 (SDDS prescribed component) | Not covered |
| 3.13 Data coverage for Nonfinancial corporations if reporting Table 6 (SDDS prescribed component) | Not covered |
| 3.14 Data coverage for HH and nonprofit institu. serving households (NPISHs) if reporting Table 6 (SDDS prescribed component) | Not covered |
| 3.15 Data coverage for Direct Investment: Intercompany lending if reporting Table 6 (SDDS prescribed component) | Not covered |
| 3.16 External debt include both foreign currency and domestic currency denominated debt instruments held by nonresidents | No - Usually produced QEDS depending on reports from DMFAS which only includes foreign currency debt. Working on the addition of domestic debt data on DMFAS and hence the addition of treasury securities held by nonresidents will be applied to the tables soon. Meanwhile, the outstanding amount is mentioned in a footnote. |
| 3.17 Additional comments and explanations on Sector Classification/Coverage | Data covered is the data of the General Government. |
| 4.0 Debt Instrument Classification/Coverage | |
| 4.1 Data coverage for Currency and deposits | Not covered |
| 4.2 Data coverage for Debt Securities | Not covered |
| 4.3 Data coverage for Loans | Not covered |
| 4.4 Data coverage for Trade credit and advances | Not covered |
| 4.5 Data coverage for Other debt liabilities | Not covered |
| 4.6 Data coverage for Special drawing rights (allocations) | Not covered |
| 4.7 Data coverage for Debt liabilities of direct investment enterprises to direct investors | Not covered |
| 4.8 Data coverage for Debt liabilities of direct investors to direct investment enterprises | Not covered |
| 4.9 Data coverage for Debt liabilities to fellow enterprises | Not covered |
| 4.10 Arrears (including interest that accrues on arrears) reported in the same debt instrument | No |
| 4.11 Arrears separately identified in the memorandum items | No |
| 4.12 Classification of maturity for short-term/long-term debt instruments | Not applicable |
| 4.13 Additional comments and explanations on Debt Instrument Classification/Coverage | 1. SDR allocations are included starting from 2007Q4. (ii) The difference between the sum of principal projections in Table 2 and the outstanding of Public Sector External Debt of Table 1 is mainly due to estimated projections of undisbursed amounts of contracted loans. |
| 5.0 Valuation and Basis of Recording | |
| 5.1 Main valuation method for debt securities (in main table) | Fair 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 | None |
| 5.4 Basis for compiling external debt statistics | No |
| 5.5 Inclusion of accrued interest costs that are not paid | None |
| 6.0 Data sources/Compiling Organizations | |
| 6.1 Main data source(s) for the external debt statistics | The Council for Development and Reconstruction provides most data of Foreign Currency Debt related to loans. MOF provides the data of some loans and all bonds. Data is then inputted in DMFAS from which reports and statistics are produced. |
| 6.2 Link(s) to national website where the external debt statistics are being disseminated | http://www.finance.gov.lb/en-US/finance/PublicDebt/Pages/PublicDebtTimeSeries.aspx |
| 6.3 Link(s) to relevant metadata that currently exists and is consistent with your external debt statistics | None |
| 6.4 Primary agency responsible for compiling external debt statistics | Ministry of Finance and Central Bank of Lebanon |
| 6.5 Primary agency responsibile for disseminating external debt statistics | Ministry of Finance |
| 7.0 Periodicity and Timeliness | |
| 7.1 Frequency of external debt statistics compilation | Monthly |
| 7.2 Frequency of external debt statistics dissemination | Monthly |
| 7.3 Timeliness of the publication of the external debt statistics | One month |
| 7.4 Additional comments on Periodicity and Timeliness | None |
| 8.0 Revision Policy | |
| 8.1 Data revision policy | Regular schedule - Data is checked on a monthly basis. |
| 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 2007Q4. (ii) Data converted through generic conversion from 2003 EDS Guide/BPM5 to 2013 EDS Guide/BPM6 basis by the World Bank from 2007Q4 onwards. |
| 11.0 Table Reporting | |
| 11.1 Table 1 -Gross External Debt Position: Public and Publicly Guar. Private Sector and Private Sector Not Publicly Guar. Debt | Yes |
| 11.2 Table 2 - Debt-Service Payment Schedule: Public and Publicly-Guaranteed Private Sector External Debt as of End-Period | Yes |
| 11.3 Table 3 - Public and Publicly-Guaranteed Private Sector External Debt: by Creditor Sector | No |
| 11.4 Table 4 - Public Sector Debt and Publicly-Guaranteed Private Sector Debt: by Instrument Breakdown | No |
| 11.5 Table 5 -Public and Publicly Guar. Private Sector External Debt: Foreign Currency and Domestic Currency Denominated Debt | No |
| 11.6 Table 6 - Gross External Debt Position: by Sector (SDDS prescribed component) | No |
| 12.0 Metadata Update | |
| 12.1 Metadata last updated | 01/30/2017 |