Within the “Sub-Saharan Africa” group, South Africa leads External debt stocks, total (DOD, current US$) in 2024 at $175.90B, while Sao Tome and Principe sits at the lower end of the current snapshot with $326.41M. This format is well suited to long-tail regional and income-group queries.
| # | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | $175.90B |
| 2 | Nigeria | $108.76B |
| 3 | Mozambique | $69.77B |
| 4 | Angola | $58.73B |
| 5 | Senegal | $47.15B |
| 6 | Kenya | $42.89B |
| 7 | Cote d'Ivoire | $40.56B |
| 8 | Ghana | $37.41B |
| 9 | Ethiopia | $36.55B |
| 10 | Tanzania | $36.34B |
| 11 | Zambia | $28.12B |
| 12 | Sudan | $22.02B |
| 13 | Uganda | $20.53B |
| 14 | Mauritius | $20.36B |
| 15 | Cameroon | $15.77B |
| 16 | Zimbabwe | $14.40B |
| 17 | Benin | $14.16B |
| 18 | Rwanda | $13.05B |
| 19 | Congo, Dem. Rep. | $12.48B |
| 20 | Burkina Faso | $10.85B |
| 21 | Gabon | $6.82B |
| 22 | Congo, Rep. | $6.73B |
| 23 | Madagascar | $6.65B |
| 24 | Mali | $6.44B |
| 25 | Guinea | $5.39B |
| 26 | Niger | $5.31B |
| 27 | Mauritania | $4.46B |
| 28 | Togo | $4.29B |
| 29 | Malawi | $3.74B |
| 30 | Chad | $3.35B |
| 31 | Cabo Verde | $2.36B |
| 32 | Sierra Leone | $2.33B |
| 33 | Botswana | $2.32B |
| 34 | Liberia | $2.23B |
| 35 | Somalia, Fed. Rep. | $1.80B |
| 36 | Lesotho | $1.77B |
| 37 | Gambia, The | $1.64B |
| 38 | Guinea-Bissau | $1.43B |
| 39 | Eswatini | $1.24B |
| 40 | Central African Republic | $1.05B |
| 41 | Burundi | $1.02B |
| 42 | Eritrea | $693.28M |
| 43 | Comoros | $385.57M |
| 44 | Sao Tome and Principe | $326.41M |