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Short-Term Share of External Debt, 1983

1983, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

This is the share of a country’s external debt that falls due within a year. Short-term debt has to be repaid or rolled over quickly, so a high share leaves a borrower exposed if lenders stop lending or interest rates rise.

Short-Term Share of External Debt, 1983 covers 95 countries. Vanuatu is highest, at 65.919; 9 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 8.180. Against 1982, 87 values changed (38 up, 49 down), the same countries are covered.

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Short-Term Share of External Debt · Data for 1983

HighestVanuatu

65.919

Lowest9 countries share it

0.000

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

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Short-Term Share of External Debt, 1983, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 95 countries · select a heading to sort

Short-Term Share of External Debt, 1983: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
VanuatuVUTMelanesia65.919
IranIRNSouthern Asia58.481
LebanonLBNWestern Asia52.632
ChinaCHNEastern Asia41.449
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa40.281
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia38.909
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia37.555
GuyanaGUYSouth America32.327
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa28.781
ColombiaCOLSouth America28.008
GabonGABMiddle Africa25.479
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia23.773
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa21.865
BelizeBLZCentral America21.654
ArgentinaARGSouth America19.332
JordanJORWestern Asia19.098
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa18.739
NepalNPLSouthern Asia17.683
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa17.223
NicaraguaNICCentral America16.206
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa15.608
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia15.346
EcuadorECUSouth America15.157
BrazilBRASouth America14.403
PeruPERSouth America14.036

02In 1983

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Vanuatu65.919
  2. Iran58.481
  3. Lebanon52.632
  4. China41.449
  5. Tanzania40.281

Lowest

  1. Kosovoshared0.000
  2. Vietnamshared0.000
  3. Timor-Lesteshared0.000
  4. Mauritiusshared0.000
  5. Saint Luciashared0.000

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 8.180. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031982 → 1983

Since 1982

What changed between 1982 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 87values changed, of 95 in both
  • 38 · 49rose · fell
  • 8unchanged

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 1983.

  • 87 distinct values among 95

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 9 countries share 0.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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 (1983). Short-Term Share of External Debt, 1983 [data set], describing 1983. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/short-term-external-debt/1983

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