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Report year 2019Data year 2019
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) 2019 — 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 | 1.456 |
| Algeria | DZA | 2.898 |
| Timor-Leste | TLS | 7.088 |
| Botswana | BWA | 9.323 |
| Iraq | IRQ | 11.824 |
| Afghanistan | AFG | 13.950 |
| China | CHN | 14.560 |
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | COD | 14.737 |
| Turkmenistan | TKM | 14.915 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 15.394 |
| Haiti | HTI | 16.397 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 17.086 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 17.480 |
| Nepal | NPL | 18.865 |
| Solomon Islands | SLB | 19.030 |
| India | IND | 19.977 |
| Eswatini | SWZ | 20.169 |
| Philippines | PHL | 20.352 |
| Syrian Arab Republic | SYR | 21.130 |
| Chad | TCD | 21.816 |
| Malawi | MWI | 22.506 |
| Comoros | COM | 22.548 |
| Burundi | BDI | 24.331 |
| Mali | MLI | 25.264 |
| Guinea | GIN | 26.558 |
| Niger | NER | 26.590 |
| Togo | TGO | 28.635 |
| Peru | PER | 29.504 |
| Russian Federation | RUS | 29.629 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 29.632 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 29.900 |
| Kosovo | XKX | 29.921 |
| Guyana | GUY | 30.064 |
| Brazil | BRA | 31.196 |
| Ethiopia | ETH | 31.868 |
| Thailand | THA | 32.177 |
| St. Lucia | LCA | 32.429 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 32.463 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 33.300 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | CIV | 33.778 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 34.918 |
| Kenya | KEN | 35.404 |
| Tonga | TON | 35.425 |
| Azerbaijan | AZE | 35.488 |
| Bolivia | BOL | 35.700 |
| Central African Republic | CAF | 36.367 |
| Fiji | FJI | 36.680 |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | 36.693 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 37.083 |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | EGY | 37.349 |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | VCT | 37.474 |
| Viet Nam | VNM | 38.573 |
| Vanuatu | VUT | 39.677 |
| Uganda | UGA | 40.664 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 40.744 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 41.251 |
| Honduras | HND | 42.521 |
| Liberia | LBR | 42.700 |
| Morocco | MAR | 43.534 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 43.842 |
| Colombia | COL | 44.014 |
| Gabon | GAB | 47.007 |
| Gambia, The | GMB | 47.757 |
| Benin | BEN | 48.452 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 48.618 |
| Mexico | MEX | 48.717 |
| Samoa | WSM | 49.577 |
| Zimbabwe | ZWE | 49.647 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 49.657 |
| Ghana | GHA | 49.869 |
| Grenada | GRD | 50.191 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 50.248 |
| Maldives | MDV | 51.775 |
| Turkiye | TUR | 55.307 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 55.509 |
| Guinea-Bissau | GNB | 55.840 |
| Moldova | MDA | 59.193 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 59.772 |
| Albania | ALB | 60.289 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 60.921 |
| Belize | BLZ | 61.933 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | BIH | 62.094 |
| Somalia, Fed. Rep. | SOM | 62.350 |
| Serbia | SRB | 63.415 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 64.855 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 65.141 |
| Belarus | BLR | 65.175 |
| Argentina | ARG | 65.250 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | STP | 66.800 |
| Congo, Rep. | COG | 66.813 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 68.006 |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 68.867 |
| Mauritania | MRT | 69.004 |
| Dominica | DMA | 72.501 |
| North Macedonia | MKD | 73.879 |
| Sudan | SDN | 74.366 |
| Jordan | JOR | 75.248 |
| Ukraine | UKR | 80.699 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 81.072 |
| Papua New Guinea | PNG | 81.450 |
| Djibouti | DJI | 85.228 |
| Armenia | ARM | 86.075 |
| Senegal | SEN | 91.306 |
| Jamaica | JAM | 93.992 |
| Angola | AGO | 96.595 |
| Cabo Verde | CPV | 97.443 |
| Kyrgyz Republic | KGZ | 98.398 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 98.557 |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | 107.373 |
| Lao PDR | LAO | 107.831 |
| Suriname | SUR | 108.976 |
| Georgia | GEO | 111.324 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 111.855 |
| Bhutan | BTN | 111.878 |
| Zambia | ZMB | 128.347 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 146.776 |
| Montenegro | MNE | 150.576 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 263.625 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 364.512 |