External debt stocks, total

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. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

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
Afghanistan20243.34Bcurrent USD
Albania202410.71Bcurrent USD
Algeria20246.90Bcurrent USD
Angola202458.73Bcurrent USD
Argentina2024242.36Bcurrent USD
Armenia202416.40Bcurrent USD
Azerbaijan202412.20Bcurrent USD
Bangladesh2024104.49Bcurrent USD
Belarus202434.22Bcurrent USD
Belize20241.56Bcurrent USD

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