Mozambique: Short-term debt to reserves
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| Mozambique |
Short-term external debt, percent of international reserves |
|---|---|
| Latest value | 25.67 |
| Year | 2023 |
| Measure | percent |
| Data availability | 1990 - 2023 |
| Average | 54.44 |
| Min - Max | 11.69 - 148.52 |
| Source | The World Bank |
The latest value from 2023 is 25.67 percent, a decline from 26.72 percent in 2022. In comparison, the world average is 564.82 percent, based on data from 143 countries. Historically, the average for Mozambique from 1990 to 2023 is 54.44 percent. The minimum value, 11.69 percent, was reached in 2011 while the maximum of 148.52 percent was recorded in 1990.
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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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|---|---|---|---|
| Terms of trade | 121.80 | 2023 | percent |
| Trade openness | 95.66 | 2024 | percent |
| Financial openness | -1.248 | 2022 | index points |
| Exports, percent of GDP | 42.84 | 2024 | percent |
| Exports, billion dollars | 9.24 | 2025 | billion U.S. dollars |
| Growth of exports | -4.00 | 2025 | percent |
| Imports, percent of GDP | 52.82 | 2024 | percent |
| Imports, billion dollars | 12.45 | 2025 | billion U.S. dollars |
| Foreign Direct Investment, percent of GDP | 15.43 | 2024 | percent |
| Foreign Direct Investment, billion dollars | 3.51 | 2024 | billion U.S. dollars |
| Portfolio investment inflows, equities | 2.99 | 2020 | million dollars (current) |
| Current account, percent of GDP | -10.96 | 2024 | percent |
| Current account, in dollars | -2.49 | 2024 | billion U.S. dollars |
| Trade balance, percent of GDP | -9.99 | 2024 | percent |
| Trade balance, in dollars | -1.13 | 2024 | billion U.S. dollars |
| Reserves | 3.84 | 2024 | billion U.S. dollars |
| Remittances, percent of GDP | 1.17 | 2024 | percent |
| Remittances | 266.91 | 2024 | million U.S. dollars |
| Net errors and omissions | -77.07 | 2024 | million USD |
| External debt | 319.52 | 2023 | percent |
| Short-term external debt | 1.40 | 2023 | percent |
| Short-term debt to reserves | 25.67 | 2023 | percent |