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External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1991

1991, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1991 covers 95 countries. Nicaragua is highest, at 960.376; Iran is lowest, at 8.621. The middle country reads 58.791. Against 1990, 92 values changed (50 up, 42 down), 3 countries joined.

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External Debt Stocks (% of GNI) · Data for 1991

HighestNicaragua

960.376

LowestIran

8.621

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), 1991, 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 95 countries · select a heading to sort

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1991: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NicaraguaNICCentral America960.376
2GuyanaGUYSouth America926.148
3LiberiaLBRWestern Africa457.213
4SomaliaSOMEastern Africa334.159
5MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia267.355
6VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia257.056
7JordanJORWestern Asia243.604
8ZambiaZMBEastern Africa232.499
9Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa210.038
10Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa199.244
11LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia182.196
12Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa176.654
13São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa174.252
14BulgariaBGREastern Europe171.304
15DR CongoCODMiddle Africa140.668
16MadagascarMDGEastern Africa126.335
17JamaicaJAMCaribbean125.769
18MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa124.616
19Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa118.092
20MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa106.218
21CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia105.968
22KenyaKENEastern Africa95.829
23MaliMLIWestern Africa95.510
24TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa93.543
25GabonGABMiddle Africa87.086

02In 1991

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Nicaragua960.376
  2. 2Guyana926.148
  3. 3Liberia457.213
  4. 4Somalia334.159
  5. 5Myanmar267.355

Lowest

  1. 95Iran8.621
  2. 94Saint Lucia14.942
  3. 93Botswana15.292
  4. 92China15.640
  5. 91Vanuatu19.696

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 58.791. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031990 → 1991

Since 1990

What changed between 1990 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 92values changed, of 92 in both
  • 50 · 42rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Djibouti+ Mozambique

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 1991.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 95 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 (1991). External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt/1991

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07Questions

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1991: questions and answers

Which country has the highest external debt in External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1991?

Nicaragua, at 960.376, of the 95 countries in the file.

What year does External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1991 describe?

1991.

How many countries does External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1991 cover?

95.

Where can I download External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 1991?

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), 1991 the newest?

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

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