Papua New Guinea: Short-term external debt

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 Papua New Guinea

Short-term debt, percent of total external debt

 Latest value 0.12
 Year 2023
 Measure percent
 Data availability 1990 - 2023
 Average 4.74
 Min - Max 0.12 - 15.54
 Source The World Bank
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The latest value from 2023 is 0.12 percent, a decline from 15.54 percent in 2022. In comparison, the world average is 17.39 percent, based on data from 167 countries. Historically, the average for Papua New Guinea from 1990 to 2023 is 4.74 percent. The minimum value, 0.12 percent, was reached in 2023 while the maximum of 15.54 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 Papua New Guinea: Short-term external debt
 2023 0.12
 2022 15.54
 2021 14.76
 2020 2.21
 2019 3.50
 2018 2.62
 2017 0.45
 2016 3.44




Definition: External debt with of public and private domestic borrowers to non-residents with maturity of twelve months of less 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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