This year’s edition of International Debt Statistics, successor to Global Development Finance and World Debt Tables, and the fourth in the series, is designed to respond to user demand for timely, comprehensive data on trends in external debt in low- and middle-income countries. It also provides summary information on the external debt of high-income countries and public (domestic and external) debt for a select group of countries. Presentation of and access to data have been refined to improve the user experience. The printed edition of International Debt Statistics 2017 now provides a summary overview and a select set of indicators, while an expanded dataset is available online.