External debt stocks (% of GNI)

For 2024, External debt stocks (% of GNI) is led by Mozambique at 350.57%. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.

Total external debt stocks to gross national income. Total external debt is debt owed to nonresidents repayable in currency, goods, or services. Total external debt is the sum of public, publicly guaranteed, and private nonguaranteed long-term debt, use of IMF credit, and short-term debt. Short-term debt includes all debt having an original maturity of one year or less and interest in arrears on long-term debt. GNI (formerly GNP) is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad.

Countries ranked 110
Snapshot year 2024
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0.087.6175263351MozambiqueMozambique: 350.57%351MongoliaMongolia: 181.86%182SenegalSenegal: 150.69%151MauritiusMauritius: 123.17%123Lao PDRLao PDR: 115.40%115ZambiaZambia: 114.20%114MontenegroMontenegro: 108.64%109UkraineUkraine: 101.27%101RwandaRwanda: 93.88%93.9JordanJordan: 90.13%90.1Cabo VerdeCabo Verde: 86.89%86.9DjiboutiDjibouti: 83.83%83.8
Rank Country Value
1 Mozambique 350.57%
2 Mongolia 181.86%
3 Senegal 150.69%
4 Mauritius 123.17%
5 Lao PDR 115.40%
6 Zambia 114.20%
7 Montenegro 108.64%
8 Ukraine 101.27%
9 Rwanda 93.88%
10 Jordan 90.13%
11 Cabo Verde 86.89%
12 Djibouti 83.83%
13 Nicaragua 82.81%
14 Dominica 82.36%
15 North Macedonia 81.15%
16 Georgia 79.68%
17 Angola 79.57%
18 Tunisia 77.70%
19 Jamaica 76.07%
20 Maldives 75.56%
21 El Salvador 75.39%
22 Fiji 71.39%
23 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 70.31%
24 Paraguay 69.74%
25 Kyrgyz Republic 69.24%
26 Grenada 68.59%
27 Guinea-Bissau 67.11%
28 Benin 66.55%
29 Gambia, The 66.36%
30 Armenia 65.99%
31 Lesotho 65.35%
32 Kazakhstan 62.60%
33 Serbia 62.25%
34 Uzbekistan 60.51%
35 Nigeria 60.04%
36 Sri Lanka 58.89%
37 Moldova 57.15%
38 St. Lucia 51.31%
39 Liberia 50.46%
40 Ecuador 49.75%
41 Colombia 49.20%
42 Bosnia and Herzegovina 49.16%
43 Cote d'Ivoire 48.83%
44 Burkina Faso 48.76%
45 Tanzania 47.32%
46 Burundi 47.13%
47 Ghana 46.92%
48 Belarus 46.15%
49 Cambodia 46.11%
50 Belize 46.04%
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

Analytical takeaways

  • Mozambique sits at the top of the External debt stocks (% of GNI) distribution in 2024 at 350.57%, with a lead of 168.72% over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is Morocco at 44.72%, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits Iran, Islamic Rep. (2.21%), and the page currently covers 110 countries.

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