External Debt Stocks (% of GNI)

External debt stocks (% of GNI)·Higher is worse — rank 1 is worst affected·Published by World Bank Group

We hold 44 editions of this indicator, from 1981 to 2024 — 4,764 rows in total, and 110 countries in the newest.

44 reference years (1981–2024), covering 85 to 120 countries, from the World Bank’s International Debt Statistics via its indicator API (DT.DOD.DECT.GN.ZS). Everything a country owes abroad, measured against a year of its national income. ⚠ THIS IS NOT A WORLD TABLE. International Debt Statistics reports on LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES ONLY, so a high-income country is absent because the Bank does not report on it, not because it owes nothing — several of the world’s largest external debtors will never appear here. ⚠ The ratio is used rather than the headline dollar stock (DT.DOD.DECT.CD) because ranking countries by dollars owed is close to ranking them by size. ⚠ These are not 44 published reports — see `restatedByReport`. No rank is published, so none is stored; the POSITION shown on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score, and labelled as ours.