The Central Bank of Colombia has announced a new design and updated content for its monthly external debt statistics bulletin, to be applied from January 2026, aimed at improving usability and understanding of the data. The revamped bulletin adds more granular breakdowns of external debt by institutional sector (government, banks and companies) and by financial instrument, and makes the information available in a database format to enable dynamic, customised queries. It also harmonises the organisation and disaggregation of the data with other external sector statistics, including the balance of payments and the international investment position, which leads to the inclusion of locally issued public-sector (TES) and private-sector debt securities held by non-residents as portfolio investment, and new detail on external debt where creditors are direct investment enterprises. Historical series have been reviewed and updated back to 2001, differentiating issuance in international versus local markets and debt owed to direct investment-related creditors, while retaining the most-used annexes, including public-sector external debt by currency, borrower type and lender type; the bulletin provides annual data from 1970 and monthly data from January 2001. The updated dataset will be published through the Central Bank’s Economic Statistics Portal under the External Sector section.

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