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Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2003

2003, 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, 2003 covers 116 countries. Liberia is highest, at 57.195; 5 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 8.052. Against 2002, 113 values changed (52 up, 61 down), the same countries are covered.

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Short-Term Share of External Debt · Data for 2003

HighestLiberia

57.195

Lowest5 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, 2003, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 116 countries · select a heading to sort

Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2003: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa57.195
BelarusBLREastern Europe52.253
ParaguayPRYSouth America49.275
ChinaCHNEastern Asia42.520
JordanJORWestern Asia39.626
UkraineUKREastern Europe34.853
VanuatuVUTMelanesia34.130
IranIRNSouthern Asia33.656
Saint LuciaLCACaribbean31.905
SudanSDNNorthern Africa31.346
GuatemalaGTMCentral America30.435
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa27.908
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa26.517
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe25.553
FijiFJIMelanesia24.928
DominicaDMACaribbean24.015
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia20.239
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe19.670
Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa18.930
El SalvadorSLVCentral America18.801
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia18.743
BulgariaBGREastern Europe18.671
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia18.462
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia18.395
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa18.007

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Liberia57.195
  2. Belarus52.253
  3. Paraguay49.275
  4. China42.520
  5. Jordan39.626

Lowest

  1. Kosovoshared0.000
  2. Samoashared0.000
  3. Timor-Lesteshared0.000
  4. Mauritiusshared0.000
  5. Laosshared0.000

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 8.052. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 113values changed, of 116 in both
  • 52 · 61rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

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 2003.

  • 112 distinct values among 116

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 5 countries share 0.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 116 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 (2003). Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/short-term-external-debt/2003

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