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China: Debt outstanding, External debt stocks, variable rate

632.21Bcurrent USD · 2025+54.8% since 2015

Variable interest rate is long-term external debt with interest rates that float with movements in a key market rate; for example, the London interbank offered rate (LIBOR) or the U.S. prime rate. This item conveys information about the borrower's exposure to changes in international interest rates. Long-term external debt is defined as debt that has an original or extended maturity of more than one year and that is owed to nonresidents by residents of an economy and repayable in currency, goods, or services. Data are in current U.S. dollars. All creditors combined (IDS counterpart area: World); figures by creditor are not carried. Annual figures for China from 1981 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (current USD)Note
2025632,208,809,936
2024703,454,068,363.5
2023728,295,169,109.1
2022770,368,712,579.6
2021828,957,342,263.4
2020770,741,483,746.8
2019660,873,234,495.3
2018539,325,843,726.7
2017570,241,767,444.2
2016501,838,738,212
2015408,303,147,719
2014434,558,448,837
2013315,585,232,331.8
2012265,401,291,283.5
2011203,197,213,439.7
2010144,919,574,404
2009127,335,940,173.2
2008126,400,063,682.9
2007105,399,368,358.5
200686,049,608,306
200571,157,982,715.8
200461,954,266,773.2
200355,123,249,714.3
200253,732,163,959
200159,388,483,746.2
200061,733,083,506.9
199960,538,308,094
199862,139,258,191.1
199745,217,223,873.1
199630,651,578,680.8
199528,370,004,895.7
199423,272,123,734
199320,623,904,291.8
199217,288,954,407.3
199116,808,997,298.8
199016,490,818,962.5
198913,901,226,303.5
198812,528,247,801.3
19878,848,545,695.9
19864,064,567,732.6
19852,337,770,698.5
19841,337,396,666.6
19831,462,271,119.2
19821,840,122,183.2
19812,630,185,623.3

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