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Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2005

2005, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2005 covers 116 countries. Belarus is highest, at 66.093; 4 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 7.974. Against 2004, 112 values changed (66 up, 46 down), the same countries are covered.

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Short-Term Share of External Debt · Data for 2005

HighestBelarus

66.093

Lowest4 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, 2005, 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, 2005: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
BelarusBLREastern Europe66.093
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa61.304
ChinaCHNEastern Asia51.868
IranIRNSouthern Asia49.950
JordanJORWestern Asia44.977
Saint LuciaLCACaribbean41.629
ParaguayPRYSouth America40.697
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa38.945
FijiFJIMelanesia35.475
UkraineUKREastern Europe34.367
SudanSDNNorthern Africa32.652
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe32.334
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia27.363
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe26.857
ArgentinaARGSouth America26.792
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa26.380
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia24.438
BulgariaBGREastern Europe24.004
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa23.674
El SalvadorSLVCentral America19.293
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa18.924
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia18.473
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa18.337
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa17.919
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa17.372

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Belarus66.093
  2. Liberia61.304
  3. China51.868
  4. Iran49.950
  5. Jordan44.977

Lowest

  1. Kosovoshared0.000
  2. Samoashared0.000
  3. Timor-Lesteshared0.000
  4. Mauritiusshared0.000
  5. Cambodia0.001

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 7.974. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 112values changed, of 116 in both
  • 66 · 46rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

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 2005.

  • 113 distinct values among 116

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 4 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 (2005). Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/short-term-external-debt/2005

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07Questions

Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest short-term external debt in Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2005?

Belarus, at 66.093, of the 116 countries in the file.

What year does Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2005 cover?

116.

Where can I download Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2005?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2005 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2024.

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