Jordan: Short-term debt to reserves

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 Jordan

Short-term external debt, percent of international reserves

 Latest value 79.06
 Year 2024
 Measure percent
 Data availability 1990 - 2024
 Average 80.22
 Min - Max 28.82 - 180.31
 Source The World Bank
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The latest value from 2024 is 79.06 percent, a decline from 83.8 percent in 2023. In comparison, the world average is 790.72 percent, based on data from 96 countries. Historically, the average for Jordan from 1990 to 2024 is 80.22 percent. The minimum value, 28.82 percent, was reached in 1996 while the maximum of 180.31 percent was recorded in 1991. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.
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 Recent values Jordan: Short-term debt to reserves
 2024 79.06
 2023 83.80
 2022 86.72
 2021 81.75
 2020 83.03
 2019 79.85
 2018 78.95
 2017 70.21




Definition: Debt of public and private domestic borrowers to non-residents with maturity of twelve months of less as percent of total foreign exchange reserves. 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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