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Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2021

2021, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2021 covers 121 countries. Mauritius is highest, at 50.401; 5 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 8.796. Against 2020, 118 values changed (61 up, 57 down), the same countries are covered.

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Short-Term Share of External Debt · Data for 2021

HighestMauritius

50.401

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, 2021, 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, 2021: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa50.401
ChinaCHNEastern Asia50.181
JordanJORWestern Asia37.374
KosovoXKXSouthern Europe32.977
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia31.914
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa31.354
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa28.463
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia27.142
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa26.487
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe25.919
BelarusBLREastern Europe24.883
DominicaDMACaribbean24.813
IranIRNSouthern Asia24.236
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia23.763
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe22.440
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia22.131
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa21.638
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa21.418
SudanSDNNorthern Africa21.153
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa20.902
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia19.773
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa19.297
LebanonLBNWestern Asia19.211
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe18.951
BulgariaBGREastern Europe18.841

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Mauritius50.401
  2. China50.181
  3. Jordan37.374
  4. Kosovo32.977
  5. Thailand31.914

Lowest

  1. Tongashared0.000
  2. Turkmenistanshared0.000
  3. Liberiashared0.000
  4. Burkina Fasoshared0.000
  5. Azerbaijanshared0.000

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 8.796. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 118values changed, of 121 in both
  • 61 · 57rose · 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 2021.

  • 117 distinct values among 121

    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 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 (2021). Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/short-term-external-debt/2021

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07Questions

Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest short-term external debt in Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2021?

Mauritius, at 50.401, of the 121 countries in the file.

What year does Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2021 cover?

121.

Where can I download Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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