External debt - Country rankings

The average for 2017 was 52.22 percent.The highest value was in Mongolia: 285.54 percent and the lowest value was in Iran: 1.42 percent. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available for: External debt.

External debt, percent of Gross National Income, 2017
(percent, Source: The World Bank, TheGlobalEconomy.com)

1. Mongolia

2. Mauritius

3. Lebanon

4. Kazakhstan

5. Bhutan

6. Djibouti

7. Kyrgyzstan

8. Georgia

9. Cape Verde

10. Jamaica

11. Mozambique

12. Ukraine

13. Laos

14. Serbia

15. Armenia

16. Papua N.G.

17. Nicaragua

18. Mauritania

19. Belize

20. Tunisia

21. Moldova

22. Bosnia & Herz.

23. Macedonia

24. Belarus

25. Jordan

26. El Salvador

27. Tajikistan

28. Bulgaria

29. Albania

30. S.T.&Principe

31. Gambia

32. Zambia

33. Montenegro

34. Liberia

35. Sri Lanka

36. Zimbabwe

37. Cambodia

38. Paraguay

39. Senegal

40. R. of Congo

41. Dominica

42. Turkey

43. Samoa

44. Romania

45. South Africa

46. Grenada

47. Vietnam

48. Ghana

49. Costa Rica

50. Sierra Leone

51. Niger

52. Morocco

53. Vanuatu

54. Gabon

55. Uganda

56. Guyana

57. St. Vincent & ...

58. Colombia

59. Domin. Rep.

60. Honduras

61. Mexico

62. Somalia

63. Ecuador

64. Azerbaijan

65. Tonga

66. Saint Lucia

67. C.A. Republic

68. Rwanda

69. Indonesia

70. Egypt

71. Bolivia

72. Kenya

73. Tanzania

74. Malawi

75. Uzbekistan

76. Ivory Coast

77. Peru

78. Ethiopia

79. Togo

80. Maldives

81. Russia

82. Chad

83. Lesotho

84. Angola

85. Benin

86. Guatemala

87. Cameroon

88. Madagascar

89. Thailand

90. Mali

91. Solomon Isl.

92. Brazil

93. Pakistan

94. Haiti

95. Comoros

96. Burkina Faso

97. Burma

98. G.-Bissau

99. Sudan

100. Nepal

101. India

102. Philippines

103. Fiji

104. Bangladesh

105. Burundi

106. Swaziland

107. Guinea

108. DR Congo

109. China

110. Afghanistan

111. Nigeria

112. Botswana

113. Algeria

114. Turkmenistan

115. Iran

Definition: Total external debt stocks to gross national income. Total external debt is debt owed to nonresidents repayable in currency, goods, or services. Total external debt is the sum of public, publicly guaranteed, and private nonguaranteed long-term debt, use of IMF credit, and short-term debt. Short-term debt includes all debt having an original maturity of one year or less and interest in arrears on long-term debt. GNI (formerly GNP) is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad.

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