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External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2000

2000, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2000 covers 113 countries. São Tomé and Príncipe is highest, at 435.839; Iran is lowest, at 8.015. The middle country reads 58.090. Against 1999, 113 values changed (48 up, 65 down), the same countries are covered.

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External Debt Stocks (% of GNI) · Data for 2000

HighestSão Tomé and Príncipe

435.839

LowestIran

8.015

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), 2000, 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 113 countries · select a heading to sort

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2000: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa435.839
2LiberiaLBRWestern Africa367.108
3Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa251.248
4GuyanaGUYSouth America205.545
5Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa205.006
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa202.626
7ZambiaZMBEastern Africa168.746
8SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe157.971
9LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia152.434
10KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia150.488
11GhanaGHAWestern Africa139.444
12NicaraguaNICCentral America139.015
13TajikistanTJKCentral Asia138.362
14SudanSDNNorthern Africa138.286
15MoldovaMDAEastern Europe136.194
16AngolaAGOMiddle Africa131.075
17MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa130.744
18JordanJORWestern Asia129.218
19BurundiBDIEastern Africa127.248
20Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa123.828
21MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa115.312
22MalawiMWIEastern Africa107.783
23EcuadorECUSouth America106.424
24CameroonCMRMiddle Africa105.913
25MadagascarMDGEastern Africa103.019

02In 2000

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1São Tomé and Príncipe435.839
  2. 2Liberia367.108
  3. 3Guinea-Bissau251.248
  4. 4Guyana205.545
  5. 5Republic of the Congo205.006

Lowest

  1. 113Iran8.015
  2. 112Botswana8.323
  3. 111Fiji11.366
  4. 110China12.067
  5. 109Haiti17.711

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 58.090. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031999 → 2000

Since 1999

What changed between 1999 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 113values changed, of 113 in both
  • 48 · 65rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 2000.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 113 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 (2000). External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt/2000

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07Questions

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2000: questions and answers

Which country has the highest external debt in External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2000?

São Tomé and Príncipe, at 435.839, of the 113 countries in the file.

What year does External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2000 describe?

2000.

How many countries does External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2000 cover?

113.

Where can I download External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2000?

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), 2000 the newest?

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

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