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Report year 1991Data year 1991
External debt stocks (% of GNI)Higher is worse — rank 1 is worst affectedPublished by World Bank Group
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.
External Debt Stocks (% of GNI) 1991 — World Bank Group
Cite as: World Bank. International Debt Statistics. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
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Total external debt as a share of gross national income, from the World Bank's International Debt Statistics via its indicator API (DT.DOD.DECT.GN.ZS). ⚠ The ratio is used here rather than the headline dollar stock (DT.DOD.DECT.CD), because ranking countries by dollars owed just ranks them by size. ⚠ International Debt Statistics covers LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES ONLY, so a high-income country is absent because it is not reported on, not because it owes nothing. No rank is published, so none is stored or derived.
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| Country | ISO Code | External debt stocks (% of GNI) |
|---|---|---|
| Iran, Islamic Rep. | IRN | 8.621 |
| St. Lucia | LCA | 14.942 |
| Botswana | BWA | 15.292 |
| China | CHN | 15.640 |
| Vanuatu | VUT | 19.696 |
| Fiji | FJI | 20.985 |
| Eswatini | SWZ | 21.245 |
| Haiti | HTI | 23.293 |
| Belize | BLZ | 27.528 |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | VCT | 28.281 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 30.818 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 30.950 |
| India | IND | 31.900 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 32.613 |
| Chad | TCD | 32.890 |
| Tonga | TON | 33.450 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 34.187 |
| Turkiye | TUR | 34.288 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 34.667 |
| Argentina | ARG | 35.719 |
| Brazil | BRA | 36.235 |
| Colombia | COL | 36.574 |
| Mexico | MEX | 37.507 |
| Maldives | MDV | 38.161 |
| Thailand | THA | 39.053 |
| Bhutan | BTN | 39.479 |
| Sudan | SDN | 40.302 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 41.108 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 41.439 |
| Cabo Verde | CPV | 41.816 |
| Grenada | GRD | 42.366 |
| Comoros | COM | 42.369 |
| Djibouti | DJI | 42.419 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 42.613 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 44.476 |
| Nepal | NPL | 44.868 |
| Yemen, Rep. | YEM | 45.664 |
| Niger | NER | 46.121 |
| Dominica | DMA | 46.252 |
| Albania | ALB | 47.454 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 48.613 |
| Senegal | SEN | 50.838 |
| Malawi | MWI | 51.919 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 52.553 |
| Zimbabwe | ZWE | 52.609 |
| Gambia, The | GMB | 57.174 |
| Central African Republic | CAF | 58.342 |
| Benin | BEN | 58.791 |
| Solomon Islands | SLB | 59.248 |
| Togo | TGO | 60.476 |
| Guinea | GIN | 60.509 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 60.952 |
| Peru | PER | 62.161 |
| Philippines | PHL | 63.001 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 65.915 |
| Algeria | DZA | 65.998 |
| Ethiopia | ETH | 66.541 |
| Samoa | WSM | 67.576 |
| Ghana | GHA | 67.581 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 71.625 |
| Morocco | MAR | 71.906 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 73.727 |
| Papua New Guinea | PNG | 75.722 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 78.893 |
| Honduras | HND | 79.773 |
| Bolivia | BOL | 81.606 |
| Burundi | BDI | 83.335 |
| Angola | AGO | 84.879 |
| Uganda | UGA | 85.897 |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | EGY | 86.642 |
| Gabon | GAB | 87.086 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 93.543 |
| Mali | MLI | 95.510 |
| Kenya | KEN | 95.829 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 105.968 |
| Mauritania | MRT | 106.218 |
| Guinea-Bissau | GNB | 118.092 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 124.616 |
| Jamaica | JAM | 125.769 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 126.335 |
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | COD | 140.668 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 171.304 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | STP | 174.252 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 176.654 |
| Lao PDR | LAO | 182.196 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | CIV | 199.244 |
| Congo, Rep. | COG | 210.038 |
| Zambia | ZMB | 232.499 |
| Jordan | JOR | 243.604 |
| Viet Nam | VNM | 257.056 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 267.355 |
| Somalia, Fed. Rep. | SOM | 334.159 |
| Liberia | LBR | 457.213 |
| Guyana | GUY | 926.148 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 960.376 |