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External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1989

1989, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1989 covers 90 countries. Nicaragua is highest, at 1,233.099; Iran is lowest, at 5.420. The middle country reads 60.931. Against 1988, 87 values changed (35 up, 52 down), 3 countries joined.

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External Debt Stocks (% of GNI) · Data for 1989

HighestNicaragua

1,233.099

LowestIran

5.420

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1989, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 90 countries · select a heading to sort

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1989: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NicaraguaNICCentral America1,233.099
2GuyanaGUYSouth America647.794
3VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia327.062
4MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia236.608
5Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa208.670
6LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia206.440
7ZambiaZMBEastern Africa182.660
8JordanJORWestern Asia181.691
9LiberiaLBRWestern Africa181.634
10SomaliaSOMEastern Africa179.289
11Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa177.016
12São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa146.026
13MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa141.529
14GambiaGMBWestern Africa126.365
15Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa123.222
16EgyptEGYNorthern Africa116.382
17JamaicaJAMCaribbean114.931
18MadagascarMDGEastern Africa114.903
19Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa113.778
20DR CongoCODMiddle Africa110.400
21MaliMLIWestern Africa97.511
22BoliviaBOLSouth America94.906
23TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa93.764
24ArgentinaARGSouth America93.342
25EcuadorECUSouth America90.820

02In 1989

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Nicaragua1,233.099
  2. 2Guyana647.794
  3. 3Vietnam327.062
  4. 4Myanmar236.608
  5. 5Republic of the Congo208.670

Lowest

  1. 90Iran5.420
  2. 89China12.891
  3. 88Saint Lucia14.339
  4. 87Botswana19.517
  5. 86Vanuatu20.448

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 60.931. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031988 → 1989

Since 1988

What changed between 1988 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 87values changed, of 87 in both
  • 35 · 52rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Lebanon+ Vietnam

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1989.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 90 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1989). External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1989 [data set], describing 1989. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt/1989

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07Questions

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1989: questions and answers

Which country has the highest external debt in External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1989?

Nicaragua, at 1,233.099, of the 90 countries in the file.

What year does External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1989 describe?

1989.

How many countries does External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1989 cover?

90.

Where can I download External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1989?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1989 the newest?

No. The newest held here is External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2024.

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