Project: Analyze International Debt Statistics

It's not that we humans only take debts to manage our necessities. A country may also take debt to manage its economy. For example, infrastructure spending is one costly ingredient required for a country's citizens to lead comfortable lives. The World Bank is the organization that provides debt to countries.

In this notebook, we are going to analyze international debt data collected by The World Bank. The dataset contains information about the amount of debt (in USD) owed by developing countries across several categories. We are going to find the answers to questions like:

What is the total amount of debt that is owed by the countries listed in the dataset?
Which country owns the maximum amount of debt and what does that amount look like?
What is the average amount of debt owed by countries across different debt indicators?

Below is a snapshot of the database you will be working with:

country_name	country_code	indicator_name	indicator_code	debt
Afghanistan	AFG	"Disbursements on external debt, long-term (DIS, current US$)"	DT.DIS.DLXF.CD	72894453.7
Afghanistan	AFG	"Interest payments on external debt, long-term (INT, current US$)"	DT.INT.DLXF.CD	53239440.1
Afghanistan	AFG	"PPG, bilateral (AMT, current US$)"	DT.AMT.BLAT.CD	61739336.9
Afghanistan	AFG	"PPG, bilateral (DIS, current US$)"	DT.DIS.BLAT.CD	49114729.4
Afghanistan	AFG	"PPG, bilateral (INT, current US$)"	DT.INT.BLAT.CD	39903620.1
Afghanistan	AFG	"PPG, multilateral (AMT, current US$)"	DT.AMT.MLAT.CD	39107845
Afghanistan	AFG	"PPG, multilateral (DIS, current US$)"	DT.DIS.MLAT.CD	23779724.3
Afghanistan	AFG	"PPG, multilateral (INT, current US$)"	DT.INT.MLAT.CD	13335820
Afghanistan	AFG	"PPG, official creditors (AMT, current US$)"	DT.AMT.OFFT.CD	100847181.9
Afghanistan	AFG	"PPG, official creditors (DIS, current US$)"	DT.DIS.OFFT.CD	72894453.7

You will execute SQL queries to answer six questions, as listed in the instructions.

select count(distinct country_name) as total_distinct_countries
from international_debt;

select distinct indicator_code as distinct_debt_indicators
from public.international_debt
order by distinct_debt_indicators

SELECT 
    ROUND(SUM(international_debt.debt)/1000000, 2) AS total_debt
FROM international_debt;

SELECT 
    international_debt.country_name, 
    SUM(international_debt.debt) AS total_debt
FROM international_debt
GROUP BY country_name
ORDER BY total_debt DESC
LIMIT 1;

SELECT 
    international_debt.indicator_code AS debt_indicator,
    international_debt.indicator_name,
    AVG(international_debt.debt) AS average_debt
FROM international_debt
GROUP BY debt_indicator, indicator_name
ORDER BY average_debt DESC
LIMIT 10;

SELECT 
    international_debt.country_name, 
    international_debt.indicator_name
FROM international_debt
WHERE debt = (SELECT 
                  MAX(debt)
              FROM international_debt
              WHERE indicator_code='DT.AMT.DLXF.CD');