"The 'International Debt Report' (IDR), formerly 'International Debt Statistics' (IDS), is a longstanding annual publication of the World Bank featuring external debt statistics and analysis for the 121 low- and middle-income countries that report to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. IDR 2022 includes (1) analyses of external debt stocks and flows from 2010 to 2021 for these countries; (2) an assessment of the evolution of the creditor composition of external debt over the past decade with particular emphasis on the emergence of nontraditional bilateral creditors and private creditors and how this has impacted the structure of borrowers' public debt portfolios and debt servicing costs, which complicates the debt restructuring process; (3) a focus on how the World Bank has sought to enhance data quality and transparency against the backdrop of rapidly changing global debt dynamics (including an increase in commercial borrowing, nontraditional lenders, and new instruments) that contribute to debt transpar
