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Lesotho: Commitments, public and publicly guaranteed

70.00Mcurrent USD · 2025+1206.3% since 2015

Commitments are the total amount of long-term loans for which contracts were signed in the year specified; data for private nonguaranteed debt are not available. 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 Lesotho from 1970 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (current USD)Note
202570,000,000
2024152,677,822
202316,008,588.8
202290,500,000
2021139,431,751.7
2020187,550,625.7
2019239,809,662.1
2018113,038,683.2
2017107,133,517.5
201684,767,675.5
20155,358,647.3
201451,409,643.1
201333,710,000
201276,718,096.7
201147,918,533.7
2010238,494,347.7
200936,228,094.1
200841,525,081.1
200780,950,699.7
200621,463,000
200515,045,912
200460,224,785.4
200321,000,000
200218,439,918.2
200142,580,983.6
200033,881,518.3
1999198,222,387.1
199866,521,035.9
199720,918,776
199676,550,281
199567,374,688.8
199463,798,273.4
199393,080,633
1992178,641,216.3
1991183,323,725.5
199046,443,873.1
198935,042,755.9
1988204,687,206.5
198763,538,693.7
198656,309,373.3
198525,838,381.8
198473,729,054.4
198340,058,700.6
198226,568,838.5
198142,988,487.6
198058,479,052.3
197950,185,617.1
197820,363,625
197728,158,710.2
19768,158,484.2
197515,288,406.3
19744,000,000
19736,202,000
1971111,581.3
1970445,200

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Published by World Bank, produced by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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World Bank (2026). Commitments, public and publicly guaranteed. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-commitments-public-and-publicly-guaranteed (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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