External debt stocks

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.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
120
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    World Bank

    International Debt Statistics, World Bank (WB)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania202439.72percent
Algeria20242.67percent
Angola202479.57percent
Argentina202439.06percent
Armenia202465.99percent
Azerbaijan202417.04percent
Bangladesh202422.25percent
Belarus202446.15percent
Belize202446.04percent
Benin202466.55percent

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