Maldives: Short-term debt to reserves

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 Maldives

Short-term external debt, percent of international reserves

 Latest value 16.68
 Year 2023
 Measure percent
 Data availability 1990 - 2023
 Average 38.66
 Min - Max 3.20 - 231.18
 Source The World Bank
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The latest value from 2023 is 16.68 percent, a decline from 54.22 percent in 2022. In comparison, the world average is 564.82 percent, based on data from 143 countries. Historically, the average for the Maldives from 1990 to 2023 is 38.66 percent. The minimum value, 3.2 percent, was reached in 1994 while the maximum of 231.18 percent was recorded in 2009. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.
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 Recent values Maldives: Short-term debt to reserves
 2023 16.68
 2022 54.22
 2021 60.22
 2020 41.53
 2019 44.30
 2018 33.29
 2017 18.92
 2016 27.54




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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