International Monetary Fund — Historical Public Debt Database (HPDD)

Name: International Monetary Fund — Historical Public Debt Database (HPDD)
Creator: International Monetary Fund
License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)

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Source: International Monetary Fund, Historical Public Debt Database (HPDD)

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

191

Temporal coverage

1800-01-01 – 2015-01-01

Licensing & provenance

License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)
Required attribution: Source: International Monetary Fund, Historical Public Debt Database (HPDD)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.FAD:HPDD
Provider terms: https://www.imf.org/en/about/copyright-and-terms

How to cite

International Monetary Fund — Historical Public Debt Database (HPDD). Retrieved from https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.FAD:HPDD. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download imf_hpdd series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/imf_hpdd
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets