Context The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects. The World Bank's stated goal is the reduction of poverty. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank Content This dataset contains both national and regional debt statistics captured by over 200 economic indicators. Time series data is available for those indicators from 1970 to 2015 for reporting countries. For more information, see the [World Bank website][1]. Fork [this kernel][2] to get started with this dataset. Acknowledgements https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/bigquery-public-data:world_bank_intl_debt https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/world-bank-international-debt Citation: The World Bank: International Debt Statistics Dataset Source: World Bank. This dataset is publicly available for anyone to use under the following terms provided by the Dataset Source - http://www.data.gov/privacy-policy#data_policy - and is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, express or implied, from Google. Google disclaims all liability for any damages, direct or indirect, resulting from the use of the dataset. Banner Photo by [@till_indeman from Unplash][3]. Inspiration What countries have the largest outstanding debt? ![enter image description here][4] https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/images/outstanding-debt.png [1]: http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/international-debt-statistics [2]: https://www.kaggle.com/paultimothymooney/starter-kernel-for-wbid-dataset [3]: https://unsplash.com/photos/rKPiuXLq29A [4]: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/images/outstanding-debt.png