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. 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.

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
Afghanistan202413.24percent
Albania202411.58percent
Algeria202425.46percent
Angola20249.89percent
Argentina202420.05percent
Armenia202421.34percent
Azerbaijan20241.79percent
Bangladesh202412.39percent
Belarus202429.02percent
Belize20240.84percent

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