| 1/ Table 1 is consistent with the GDDS external debt data category. It presents the gross external debt position separately identifying the public sector external debt, publicly-guaranteed private sector external debt, and private sector external debt not publicly guaranteed. Data are broken down by maturity─short term and long term─on an original maturity basis, as defined in the Pre-Publication Draft of the External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users (the Guide). Dissemination of quarterly data with one or two quarters lag is recommended. The presentation of the gross external debt position on a "public-sector-based-approach" is discussed in the Guide, Chapter 5. 2/ Public sector coverage should be as comprehensive as possible. However, data may only cover the nonfinancial public sector (NFPS), general government (GG), or central government (CG). If so, please indicate in the country-specific note #1 below. 3/ The public sector includes the general government, the central bank, and those entities in the deposit-taking corporations, except the central bank, and other sectors that are public corporations (the Guide, paragraph 5.5). The institutional sectors are defined in the Guide, paragraphs 3.4-3.12. 4/ Publicly-guaranteed private sector external debt comprises the external debt liabilities of the private sector, the servicing of which is contractually guaranteed by a public sector unit resident in the same economy as the debtor (the Guide, paragraph 5.6). 5/ Private Sector External Debt Not Publicly Guaranteed is defined as external debt of the private sector that is not contractually guaranteed by a public sector unit resident in the same economy (the Guide, paragraph 5.6). * In line with the sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6), long-term public sector external debt includes SDR allocations (see the Guide, paragraph 3.45, and Tables 4.1, 5.1, and 5.2; and BPM6, paragraphs 5.35 and 5.103, and Appendix 9, Table V, Reserve related liabilities to nonresidents, long term). |