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Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2017

2017, 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, 2017 covers 121 countries. Iran is highest, at 61.576; 3 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 9.652. Against 2016, 118 values changed (60 up, 58 down), the same countries are covered.

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Short-Term Share of External Debt · Data for 2017

HighestIran

61.576

Lowest3 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, 2017, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 121 countries · select a heading to sort

Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2017: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
IranIRNSouthern Asia61.576
ChinaCHNEastern Asia60.242
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa49.302
DominicaDMACaribbean40.487
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia38.648
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa36.733
JordanJORWestern Asia36.379
KosovoXKXSouthern Europe33.383
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa29.167
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa28.981
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa26.821
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe26.734
FijiFJIMelanesia25.039
SudanSDNNorthern Africa24.712
ArgentinaARGSouth America24.569
BelarusBLREastern Europe24.567
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia24.437
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe23.671
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa23.360
BulgariaBGREastern Europe23.265
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa22.122
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe21.925
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia21.080
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa20.827
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia19.927

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Iran61.576
  2. China60.242
  3. Mauritius49.302
  4. Dominica40.487
  5. Thailand38.648

Lowest

  1. Tongashared0.000
  2. Liberiashared0.000
  3. Burkina Fasoshared0.000
  4. Lesotho0.026
  5. Burundi0.044

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 9.652. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 118values changed, of 121 in both
  • 60 · 58rose · 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 2017.

  • 119 distinct values among 121

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 3 countries share 0.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 121 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 (2017). Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/short-term-external-debt/2017

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