Data for 2002

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2002

Name: External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2002
Creator: World Bank Group
License: https://data.worldbank.org/summary-terms-of-use

2002, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2002 covers 113 countries. Liberia is highest, at 431.58; Iran is lowest, at 6.93. The middle country reads 63.83. Against 2001, 113 values changed (67 up, 46 down), the same countries are covered.

Download CSV Cite this year

Share this page

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI) · Data for 2002

HighestLiberia

431.58

LowestIran

6.93

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

113countries
1measure
2002the year it describes
113distinct values14 decimals, as published
Sep 6, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2002, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Search this table

Showing 25 of 113 countries · select a heading to sort

External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2002: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	431.58
2	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	407.50
3	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	229.55
4	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	213.63
5	Guyana`GUY`South America	207.14
6	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	183.23
7	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	165.24
8	Argentina`ARG`South America	159.89
9	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	151.80
10	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	134.86
11	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	128.35
12	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	126.56
13	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	126.47
14	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	122.08
15	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	121.40
16	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	119.23
17	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	108.26
18	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	107.84
19	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	107.51
20	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	107.06
21	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	106.30
22	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	99.02
23	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	95.77
24	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	95.25
25	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	93.08
26	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	90.25
27	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	87.60
28	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	87.05
29	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	84.04
30	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	79.17
31	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	77.95
32	Ecuador`ECU`South America	75.87
33	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	75.66
34	Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	75.51
35	Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	74.77
36	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	74.58
37	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	74.08
38	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	73.53
39	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	73.06
40	Honduras`HND`Central America	72.64
41	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	72.45
42	Belize`BLZ`Central America	72.17
43	Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	71.67
44	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	70.03
45	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	69.98
46	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	69.94
47	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	67.67
48	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	67.08
49	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	66.94
50	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	66.80
51	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	66.50
52	Bolivia`BOL`South America	66.32
53	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	65.88
54	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	65.03
55	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	64.03
56	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	63.96
57	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	63.83
58	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	63.62
59	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	63.44
60	Niger`NER`Western Africa	63.22
61	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	62.16
62	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	61.46
63	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	59.73
64	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	59.66
65	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	59.15
66	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	57.52
67	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	56.61
68	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	56.20
69	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	55.90
70	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	55.44
71	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	53.93
72	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	53.91
73	Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	53.33
74	Peru`PER`South America	53.08
75	Paraguay`PRY`South America	51.12
76	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	50.97
77	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	49.61
78	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	49.54
79	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	49.10
80	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	48.56
81	Brazil`BRA`South America	47.08
82	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	46.80
83	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	44.58
84	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	44.44
85	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	43.78
86	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	43.60
87	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	41.69
88	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	41.52
89	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	40.85
90	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	39.07
91	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	38.83
92	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	38.68
93	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	37.35
94	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	35.88
95	Colombia`COL`South America	35.23
96	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	34.81
97	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	33.95
98	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	30.86
99	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	29.32
100	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	28.62
101	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	28.16
102	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	27.79
103	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	25.54
104	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	25.30
105	Mexico`MEX`Central America	24.16
106	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	23.34
107	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	22.49
108	India`IND`Southern Asia	20.67
109	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	20.53
110	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	12.58
111	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	11.44
112	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	10.36
113	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	6.93

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

Lowest

113Iran6.93
112Botswana10.36
111Fiji11.44
110China12.58
109Haiti20.53

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 63.83. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −0countries joined / left
113values changed, of 113 in both
67 · 46rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Argentina58.49 → 159.89+101.40
Laos149.17 → 183.23+34.06
Gambia75.36 → 107.06+31.70
Liberia405.07 → 431.58+26.52
Grenada49.20 → 75.51+26.32

Fell most

Angola119.01 → 66.80−52.21
Malawi105.03 → 57.52−47.50
DR Congo164.44 → 119.23−45.20
Serbia91.72 → 63.83−27.89
Indonesia85.90 → 67.67−18.23

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 2002.
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

.csv
For a spreadsheet or code
113 rows · 4.7 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel
Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.
Download external-debt-2002-nations-inquiry.csv
↗
The publisher’s original
World Bank Group’s own file, on its own site.
DT.DOD.DECT.GN.ZS

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 (2002). External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt/2002

0644 held

Other years

‹ The year before
External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2001
113 countries
The year after ›
External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), 2003
113 countries
All of them
External Debt Stocks (% of GNI): every year
44 held, with the data dictionary, coverage and licence.
How it has moved, charted by country

07Questions