Finland: External debt in foreign currencies

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 Finland

External debt in foreign currencies, percent of total

 Latest value 29.03
 Year 2024
 Measure percent
 Data availability 2018 - 2024
 Average 30.00
 Min - Max 26.44 - 33.62
 Source The World Bank
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The latest value from 2024 is 29.03 percent, a decline from 30.03 percent in 2023. In comparison, the world average is 74.10 percent, based on data from 43 countries. Historically, the average for Finland from 2018 to 2024 is 30 percent. The minimum value, 26.44 percent, was reached in 2018 while the maximum of 33.62 percent was recorded in 2022. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.
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 Recent values Finland: External debt in foreign currencies
 2024 29.03
 2023 30.03
 2022 33.62
 2021 32.57
 2020 29.58
 2019 28.70
 2018 26.44




Total external debt, public and private, denominated in foreign currencies as percent of total external debt. Source: Kose, M. Ayhan, Sergio Kurlat, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara. 2022. "A Cross-Country Database of Fiscal Space." Journal of International Money and Finance 128 (November): 102682.

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