Feeling dumb after not being able to find requested data

I am currently working as an intern and was asked to find the OECD average of total debt-to-gdp ratio.

I tried imf stats, worldbank, oecd database, etc. but was not able to find this simple figure.

I did manage to download McKinsey's publication on this topic, and was able to gather data for only 28 countries out of 34 total OECD countries. All I could do was to take the average number and indicate on a footnote that data for 6 countries were excluded.

My question is, if someone cant find the OECD avg of total debt-togdp ratio in hrs of research, is he downright idiotic?

Also, if someone was ever asked to find similar data before, where did you look up?

 

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