Turkey: Short-term external debt

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 Turkey

Short-term debt, percent of total external debt

 Latest value 33.83
 Year 2024
 Measure percent
 Data availability 1990 - 2024
 Average 24.17
 Min - Max 14.18 - 35.28
 Source The World Bank
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The latest value from 2024 is 33.83 percent, a decline from 34.82 percent in 2023. In comparison, the world average is 23.55 percent, based on data from 104 countries. Historically, the average for Turkey from 1990 to 2024 is 24.17 percent. The minimum value, 14.18 percent, was reached in 2002 while the maximum of 35.28 percent was recorded in 2013. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.
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 Recent values Turkey: Short-term external debt
 2024 33.83
 2023 34.82
 2022 32.45
 2021 27.12
 2020 25.97
 2019 23.11
 2018 21.78
 2017 24.50




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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