World Bank · Economy

Papua New Guinea: External debt stocks (% of GNI)

41.89percent · 2024-53.2% since 2014

Total external debt stocks to gross national income. Total external debt is debt owed to nonresidents repayable in currency, goods, or services. Total external debt is the sum of public, publicly guaranteed, and private nonguaranteed long-term debt, use of IMF credit, and short-term debt. Short-term debt includes all debt having an original maturity of one year or less and interest in arrears on long-term debt. GNI (formerly GNP) is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad. Annual figures for Papua New Guinea from 1970 to 2024.

19852024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202441.885
202354.287
202265.817
202180.392
202078.111
201981.45
201877.804
201779.508
201697.139
2015100.405
201489.564
2013110.583
201273.882
201177.33
201045.416
200916.434
200813.026
200717.347
200623.299
200541.322
200449.726
200359.537
200266.941
200172.307
200070.398
199983.253
199876.968
199756.137
199653.413
199557.336
199454.779
199371.979
199295.218
199175.722
199083.773
198967.874
198864
198775.858
198677.09
198590.471
198482.102
198377.186
198272.356
198149.131
198028.922
197927.167
197830.371
197742.054
197635.646
197539.404
197437.166
197343.187
197260.718
197159.648
197033.358

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

The dataset for every country, with quality and provenance →

Cite or download

World Bank (2026). External debt stocks (% of GNI). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-external-debt-stocks (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

CSV, all countriesJSON, Papua New GuineaAPI and MCP

External debt stocks (% of GNI) in other countries

Rank Papua New Guinea against its region, see where publishers disagree, or ask a question in plain words on the Interva desk.

Papua New Guinea: External debt stocks (% of GNI) (1970–2024) · Interva