"Global Development Finance 2012:External Debt of Developing Countries isa continuation of the World Bank's publicationsGlobal Development Finance, Volume II (1997through 2009) and the earlier World Debt Tables(1973 through 1996). As in previous years,GDF 2012 provides statistical tables showingthe external debt of 129 developing countriesthat report public and publicly guaranteedexternal debt to the World Bank's DebtorReporting System (DRS). It also includestables of key debt ratios for individual reportingcountries and the composition of externaldebt stocks and flows for individual reportingcountries and regional and income groupsalong with some graphical presentations.GDF 2012 draws on a database maintainedby the World Bank External Debt (WBXD)system. Longer time series and more detaileddata are available from the Global DevelopmentFinance 2012 on CD-ROM and the WorldBank open databases, which contain more than200 time series indicators, covering the years1970 to 2010 for most reporting countries,and pipeline data for scheduled debt servicepayments on existing commitments to 2018.