External Debt by Country statistics

[144,050 represents $144,050,000,000. Total external debt is debt owed to nonresidents repayable in foreign currency, goods, or services. It is the sum of pubic, 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. Public debt comprises long-term external obligations of public debtors, including the national government and political subdivisions (or an agency of either) and autonomous public bodies, and external obligations of private debtors that are guaranteed for repayment by a public entity. Debt service is the sum of principal repayments and interest actually paid in foreign currency, goods, or services on long-term debt, interest paid on short-term debt, and repayments (repurchases and charges) to the IMF]


	Total	Total debt	External public debt (mil. dol.)
	external	service
COUNTRY	debt	as percent	1980	1990	1995	1998
	1998	of exports ¹
	(mil.dol.)	1998

Argentina	144,050	58	10,181	46,902	55,967	76,799
Bangladesh	16,376	9	3,417	11,973	15,469	15,804
Bolivia	6,077	30	2,182	3,684	4,448	4,307
Brazil	232,004	74	40,861	87,669	97,180	98,959
Bulgaria	9,907	22	(NA)	9,831	8,716	7,781
Cameroon	9,829	22	2,005	5,366	8,059	8,096
Chile	36,302	22	4,705	10,424	7,181	4,986
China ²	154,599	9	4,504	45,512	94,671	99,424
Colombia	33,263	31	4,089	14,667	13,946	16,930
Congo (Brazzaville) ³	5,119	3	1,257	4,203	4,952	4,250
Congo (Kinshasa) ³	12,929	1	4,071	9,004	9,618	8,949
Costa Rica	3,971	8	1,700	3,060	3,123	3,047
Cote d'Ivoire	14,852	26	4,310	10,663	11,899	10,800
Croatia	8,297	9	(X)	(X)	1,590	4,910
Dominican Republic	4,451	4	1,220	3,417	3,638	3,530
Ecuador	15,140	29	3,300	9,864	12,062	12,589
Egypt	31,964	10	16,212	27,347	30,584	27,669
Ethiopia	10,352	11	688	8,479	9,772	9,618
Gabon	4,425	12	1,271	3,147	3,987	3,833
Ghana	6,884	28	1,152	2,773	4,569	5,570
Guatemala	4,565	10	549	2,464	2,832	2,989
Honduras	5,002	19	975	3,423	3,979	3,946
Hungary	28,580	27	6,416	18,002	23,782	15,941
India ⁴	98,232	21	18,334	71,058	80,369	85,207
Indonesia	150,875	33	18,169	48,042	65,305	66,944
Jamaica	3,995	13	1,421	3,930	3,404	3,079
Jordan	8,484	16	1,490	7,040	7,017	7,388
Kenya	7,010	19	2,062	4,758	5,891	5,629
Lebanon	6,725	19	(NA)	356	1,549	3,980
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of	2,392	13	(X)	(X)	768	1,944
Madagascar	4,394	15	892	3,360	3,707	4,107
Malaysia	44,773	9	4,007	11,589	16,023	18,158
Mali	3,201	13	669	2,333	2,737	2,827
Mexico	159,959	21	33,915	75,970	94,384	87,996
Morocco	20,687	23	8,325	22,307	22,110	19,325
Nicaragua	5,968	26	1,671	8,277	8,537	5,212
Oman	3,629	(X)	436	2,397	2,636	2,228
Pakistan	32,229	24	8,496	16,504	23,804	26,061
Panama	6,689	8	2,271	3,986	3,910	5,413
Papua New Guinea	2,692	9	485	1,519	1,666	1,410
Peru	32,397	28	6,218	13,625	18,922	20,803
Philippines	47,817	12	6,363	24,037	29,905	28,189
Poland	47,708	10	(NA)	39,259	41,071	35,136
Romania	9,513	24	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	6,962
Russia	183,601	12	(X)	(X)	(NA)	119,314
Senegal	3,861	23	1,105	2,931	3,171	3,274
Sierra Leone	1,243	18	(NA)	600	904	944
Slovenia	(NA)	(NA)	(X)	(X)	1,489	(NA)
Sri Lanka	8,526	7	1,227	4,947	7,008	7,649
Sudan	16,843	10	3,822	9,153	9,778	9,226
Syria	22,435	6	2,921	14,915	16,755	16,328
Tanzania	7,603	21	2,406	5,734	6,205	6,404
Thailand	86,172	19	3,943	12,452	16,951	28,113
Tunisia	11,078	15	3,210	6,659	8,721	9,727
Turkey	102,074	21	15,040	38,869	50,313	49,932
Uganda	3,935	24	549	2,157	3,059	3,402
Uruguay	7,600	24	1,127	3,043	3,830	5,142
Venezuela	37,003	27	10,614	24,506	28,491	26,692
Yemen	4,138	4	1,453	5,152	5,526	3,590
Yugoslavia, former	13,742	(NA)	4,580	12,985	8,724	8,321
Zambia	6,865	18	2,141	4,876	5,073	5,320
Zimbabwe	4,716	38	696	2,464	3,523	3,341

NA Not available. X Not applicable.
1 Debt service payments as percent of exports of goods and services.
2 With the establishment of diplomatic relations with China on January 1, 1979, the U.S. government recognized the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of China and acknowledged the Chinese position that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of China.
3 "Congo" is the official short-form name for both the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. To distinguish one from the other the U.S. Dept. of State adds the capital in parentheses. This practice is unofficial and provisional.
4 Fiscal year basis.

Source: The World Bank, Washington, DC, 2000 World Development Indicators.

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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