List of countries by external debt
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This is a list of countries by external debt
, the total public and private debt owed to nonresidents repayable in internationally accepted currencies, goods, or services, where the public debt is the money
or credit owed by any level of government, from central to local, and the private debt the money or credit owed by private households or private corporations based in the country under consideration.
The total United States public debt
is numerically very similar to United States external debt, but only about a third of United States public debt is external. http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/21/who-owns-america-hint-its-not-china/ For discussions of debt ceilings and government defaults in the US and Europe, public debt figures need to be considered.
For informational purposes several non-sovereign entities are also included in this list. Note that this list is gross debt, not net debt. For net debt, see Net international investment position
.
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External debt
External debt is that part of the total debt in a country that is owed to creditors outside the country. The debtors can be the government, corporations or private households. The debt includes money owed to private commercial banks, other governments, or international financial institutions such...
, the total public and private debt owed to nonresidents repayable in internationally accepted currencies, goods, or services, where the public debt is the money
Money
Money is any object or record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context. The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange; a unit of account; a store of value; and, occasionally in the past,...
or credit owed by any level of government, from central to local, and the private debt the money or credit owed by private households or private corporations based in the country under consideration.
The total United States public debt
United States public debt
The United States public debt is the money borrowed by the federal government of the United States at any one time through the issue of securities by the Treasury and other federal government agencies...
is numerically very similar to United States external debt, but only about a third of United States public debt is external. http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/21/who-owns-america-hint-its-not-china/ For discussions of debt ceilings and government defaults in the US and Europe, public debt figures need to be considered.
For informational purposes several non-sovereign entities are also included in this list. Note that this list is gross debt, not net debt. For net debt, see Net international investment position
Net international investment position
The difference between a country's external financial assets and its liabilities is the net international investment position . Both public and private held external assets and liabilities by legal residents of the respective country are hereby taken into account...
.
| Rank | Country | External Debt US dollars | Date | Per capita Per capita Per capita is a Latin prepositional phrase: per and capita . The phrase thus means "by heads" or "for each head", i.e. per individual or per person... US dollars | % of GDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  United States |
15,041,163,000,000 | 30 June 2011 | 47,568 | 99 |
| — |  European Union |
13,720,000,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 27,864 | 85 |
| 2 |  United Kingdom |
8,981,000,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 144,338 | 400 |
| 3 |  Germany |
4,713,000,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 57,755 | 142 |
| 4 |  Early Modern France |
4,698,000,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 74,619 | 182 |
| 5 |  Japan |
2,441,000,000,000 | 30 September 2010 | 19,148 | 45 |
| 6 |  Republic of Ireland |
2,378,000,000,000 | 10 November 2011 | 519,070 | 1,165 |
| 7 |  Italy |
2,223,000,000,000 | 30 June 2010 est. | 36,841 | 108 |
| 8 |  Spain |
2,166,000,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 47,069 | 154 |
| 9 |  LuxembourgAs the Bank of International Settlements explains, small countries with large financial sectors tend to have disproportionately large gross external debts as well as holding large cross-border debt assets.http://www.bis.org/ifc/events/5ifcconf/dias.pdf Luxembourg is a net creditor country. |
1,892,000,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 3,696,467 | 3,443 |
| 10 |  Belgium |
1,241,000,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 113,603 | 266 |
| 11 |  Switzerland |
1,200,000,000,000 | 30 September 2010 | 154,063 | 229 |
| 12 |  Australia |
1,169,000,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 52,596 | 95 |
| 13 |  Canada |
1,009,000,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 29,625 | 64 |
| 14 |  Sweden |
853,300,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 91,487 | 187 |
| 15 |  Austria |
755,000,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 90,128 | 200 |
| 16 |  Hong Kong |
750,800,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 105,420 | 334 |
| 17 |  Norway |
643,000,000,000 | 12 August 2011 | 131,220 | 141 |
| 18 |  Denmark |
559,500,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 101,084 | 180 |
| 19 |  Greece |
532,900,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 47,636 | 174 |
| 20 |  Portugal |
497,800,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 46,795 | 217 |
| 21 |  Russia |
480,200,000,000 | 30 November 2010 est. | 3,421 | 33 |
| 22 |  Netherlands |
371,028,000,000 | 31 December 2009 | 47,172 | 74 |
| 23 |  Finland |
370,800,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 68,960 | 155 |
| 24 |  South Korea |
370,100,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 7,567 | 37 |
| 25 |  Brazil |
310,800,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,608 | 15 |
| 26 |  Chile |
316,900,000,000 | 30 June 2011 | 280 | 20 |
| 27 |  Turkey |
270,700,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 3,794 | 36 |
| 28 |  Poland |
252,900,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 6,639 | 54 |
| 29 |  Mexico |
212,500,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,956 | 20 |
| 30 |  Indonesia |
196,100,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 837 | 28 |
| 31 |  Argentina |
160,900,000,000 | 30 September 2010 est. | 3,971 | 43 |
| 32 |  Hungary |
148,400,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 14,821 | 115 |
| 33 |  United Arab Emirates |
122,700,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 24,273 | 41 |
| 34 |  Kingdom of Romania |
108,900,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 5,082 | 67 |
| 35 |  Ukraine |
97,500,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 2,144 | 71 |
| 36 |  Kazakhstan |
94,440,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 6,060 | 68 |
| 37 |  Israel |
89,680,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 12,070 | 42 |
| 38 |  Czech Republic |
86,790,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 8,260 | 45 |
| 39 | Chile |
84,510,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 4,916 | 42 |
| 40 |  Saudi Arabia |
82,920,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 3,176 | 19 |
| 41 |  Thailand |
82,500,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,292 | 26 |
| 42 |  South Africa |
80,520,000,000 | 30 June 2010 est. | 1,613 | 23 |
| 43 |  Malaysia |
72,600,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 2,570 | 31 |
| 44 |  Qatar |
71,380,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 41,988 | 55 |
| 45 |  New Zealand |
219,589,000,000 | March 2011 | 50,260 | 127 |
| 46 |  Philippines |
59,770,000,000 | 30 September 2010 est. | 636 | 32 |
| 47 |  Independent State of Croatia |
59,700,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 13,519 | 99 |
| 48 |  Slovakia |
59,330,000,000 | 30 June 2010 est. | 10,926 | 68 |
| 49 |  Colombia |
57,740,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,269 | 20 |
| 50 |  Pakistan |
57,210,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 343 | 33 |
| 51 |  Kuwait |
56,810,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 15,754 | 43 |
| 52 |  Venezuela |
55,610,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,906 | 19 |
| 53 |  Iraq |
52,580,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,641 | 64 |
| 54 |  Slovenia |
51,570,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 25,555 | 108 |
| 55 |  Kingdom of Bulgaria |
47,150,000,000 | 30 November 2010 est. | 6,261 | 99 |
| 56 |  Sudan |
37,980,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 946 | 55 |
| 57 |  Latvia |
37,280,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 16,584 | 155 |
| 58 |  Lebanon |
34,450,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 8,815 | 88 |
| 59 |  Vietnam |
33,450,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 379 | 32 |
| 60 |  Peru |
33,290,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,126 | 22 |
| 61 |  Cyprus |
32,610,000,000 | 31 December 2008 est. | 37,812 | 129 |
| 62 |  Serbia |
30,900,000,000 | 30 November 2010 est. | 4,178 | 80 |
| 63 |  Egypt |
30,610,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 391 | 14 |
| 64 |  Lithuania |
27,600,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 8,381 | 76 |
| 65 |  Belarus |
24,800,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 2,629 | 45 |
| 66 |  Bangladesh |
24,460,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 149 | 23 |
| 67 |  Morocco |
22,690,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 712 | 22 |
| 68 |  Estonia |
22,210,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 17,284 | 112 |
| 69 |  Singapore |
21,660,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 4,194 | 10 |
| 70 |  Cuba |
19,750,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,780 | 34 |
| 71 |  Tunisia |
18,760,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,779 | 42 |
| 72 |  Monaco |
16,500,000,000 | July 2011 est. | 5,265 | 260 |
| 73 |  Angola |
17,980,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 944 | 21 |
| 74 |  Sri Lanka |
17,970,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 881 | 36 |
| 75 |  Guatemala |
17,470,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,216 | 42 |
| 76 |  Ecuador |
14,710,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 995 | 25 |
| 77 |  Bahrain |
14,680,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 13,261 | 65 |
| 78 |  Panama |
13,850,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 3,927 | 52 |
| 79 |  Democratic Republic of the Congo |
13,500,000,000 | 2009 est. | 197 | 122 |
| 80 |  Uruguay |
13,390,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 3,989 | 33 |
| 81 |  Dominican Republic |
13,090,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,326 | 25 |
| 82 |  Iran |
12,840,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 170 | 4 |
| 83 |  Jamaica |
12,660,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 4,660 | 92 |
| 84 |  North Korea |
12,500,000,000 | 2001 est. | 544 | 0 |
| 85 |  Côte d'Ivoire |
11,600,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 527 | 51 |
| 86 |  El Salvador |
11,450,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,953 | 53 |
| 87 |  Nigeria |
11,020,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 71 | 5 |
| 88 |  Oman |
8,829,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 2,962 | 16 |
| 89 |  Costa Rica |
8,550,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,874 | 24 |
| 90 |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
7,996,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 2,052 | 48 |
| 91 |  Kenya |
7,935,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 200 | 25 |
| 92 |  Syria |
7,682,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 373 | 13 |
| 93 |  Zimbabwe |
7,662,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 609 | 103 |
| 94 |  Tanzania |
7,576,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 183 | 33 |
| 95 |  Yemen |
7,147,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 293 | 23 |
| 96 |  Myanmar |
7,145,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 117 | 17 |
| 97 |  Ghana |
6,483,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 274 | 21 |
| 98 |  Libya |
6,378,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 972 | 9 |
| 99 |  Malta |
5,978,000,000 | 31 December 2010 | 14,233 | 72 |
| 100 |  Laos |
5,797,000,000 | 2010 est. | 900 | 91 |
| 101 |  Jordan |
5,522,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 903 | 20 |
| 102 |  Republic of Macedonia |
5,485,000,000 | 30 September 2010 est. | 2,668 | 60 |
| 103 |  Armenia |
5,227,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 1,584 | 56 |
| 104 |  Mauritius |
5,043,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 3,937 | 52 |
| 105 |  Turkmenistan |
5,000,000,000 | 2009 est. | 978 | 25 |
| 106 |  Republic of the Congo |
5,000,000,000 | 2000 est. | 1,722 | 155 |
| 107 |  Mozambique |
4,990,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 231 | 50 |
| 108 |  Moldova |
4,618,000,000 | 30 September 2010 est. | 1,296 | 79 |
| 109 |  Nepal |
4,500,000,000 | 2009 | 161 | 35 |
| 110 |  Cambodia |
4,338,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 304 | 37 |
| 111 |  Trinidad and Tobago |
4,303,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 3,502 | 21 |
| 112 |  Ethiopia |
4,289,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 51 | 14 |
| 113 |  Uzbekistan |
4,236,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 150 | 11 |
| 114 |  Algeria |
4,138,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 115 | 3 |
| 115 |  Nicaragua |
4,030,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 693 | 62 |
| 116 |  Senegal |
3,885,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 296 | 30 |
| 117 |  Kyrgyzstan |
3,738,000,000 | 30 June 2010 | 699 | 81 |
| 118 |  Honduras |
3,540,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 465 | 23 |
| 119 |  Zambia |
3,495,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 264 | 22 |
| 120 |  Georgia (country) |
3,381,000,000 | 31 December 2009 | 771 | 31 |
| 121 |  Cameroon |
3,344,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 164 | 15 |
| 122 |  Azerbaijan |
3,221,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 356 | 6 |
| 123 |  Liberia |
3,200,000,000 | 2005 est. | 930 | 590 |
| 124 |  Iceland |
3,073,000,000 | 2002 | 10,670 | 35 |
| 125 |  Guinea |
3,072,000,000 | 31 December 2009 est. | 305 | 68 |
| 126 |  Somalia |
3,000,000,000 | 2001 est. | 386 | 0 |
| 127 |  Madagascar |
2,973,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 140 | 36 |
| 128 |  Benin |
2,894,000,000 | 31 December 2009 est. | 308 | 43 |
| 129 |  Uganda |
2,888,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 85 | 17 |
| 130 |  Bolivia |
2,864,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 275 | 15 |
| 131 |  Albania |
2,810,000,000 | 2009 | 882 | 23 |
| 132 |  Mali |
2,800,000,000 | 2002 | 254 | 88 |
| 133 |  Afghanistan |
2,700,000,000 | FY08/09 | 92 | 22 |
| 134 |  Paraguay |
2,445,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 382 | 13 |
| 135 |  Gabon |
2,374,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,587 | 18 |
| 136 |  Namibia |
2,373,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,131 | 20 |
| 137 |  Botswana |
2,222,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 1,208 | 16 |
| 138 |  Niger |
2,100,000,000 | 2003 est. | 178 | 79 |
| 139 |  Burkina Faso |
2,002,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 136 | 23 |
| 140 |  Tajikistan |
1,997,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 262 | 35 |
| 141 |  Mongolia |
1,860,000,000 | 2009 | 686 | 41 |
| 142 |  Chad |
1,749,000,000 | 31 December 2008 est. | 160 | 21 |
| 143 |  Sierra Leone |
1,610,000,000 | 2003 est. | 340 | 61 |
| 144 |  Papua New Guinea |
1,548,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 238 | 16 |
| 145 |  Seychelles |
1,374,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 15,614 | 147 |
| 146 |  Malawi |
1,213,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 77 | 24 |
| 147 |  Burundi |
1,200,000,000 | 2003 | 167 | 202 |
| 148 |  Central African Republic |
1,153,000,000 | 2007 est. | 270 | 68 |
| — |  West Bank |
1,040,000,000 | 2010 est. | 414 | 0 |
| 149 |  Belize |
1,010,000,000 | 2009 est. | 3,079 | 75 |
| 150 |  Eritrea |
961,900,000 | 31 December 2008 est. | 195 | 58 |
| 151 |  Maldives |
943,000,000 | 2010 est. | 2,947 | 50 |
| 152 |  Guinea-Bissau |
941,500,000 | 2000 est. | 722 | 259 |
| 153 |  Bhutan |
836,000,000 | 2009 | 1,193 | 64 |
| 154 |  Equatorial Guinea |
832,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 634 | 6 |
| 155 |  Guyana |
804,300,000 | 30 September 2008 | 1,049 | 42 |
| 156 |  Barbados |
668,000,000 | 2003 | 2,456 | 22 |
| 157 |  Kingdom of Montenegro |
650,000,000 | 2006 | 939 | 24 |
| 158 |  Lesotho |
647,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 255 | 30 |
| 159 | 530,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 306 | 50 | |
| 160 |  Suriname |
504,300,000 | 2005 est. | 1,011 | 28 |
| 161 |  Swaziland |
497,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 428 | 14 |
| 162 |  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
479,000,000 | 2010 est. | 4,477 | 85 |
| — |  Aruba |
478,600,000 | 2005 est. | 4,935 | 21 |
| 163 |  Djibouti |
428,000,000 | 2006 | 573 | 56 |
| 164 |  Antigua and Barbuda |
359,800,000 | June 2006 | 4,388 | 36 |
| 165 |  Haiti |
350,000,000 | 31 December 2010 est. | 36 | 5 |
| 166 |  Grenada |
347,000,000 | 2004 | 3,402 | 74 |
| 167 | 342,600,000 | 2004 est. | 1,067 | 6 | |
| 168 |  Cape Verde |
325,000,000 | 2002 | 714 | 52 |
| 169 |  São Tomé and Príncipe |
318,000,000 | 2002 | 2,193 | 349 |
| 170 |  Saint Kitts and Nevis |
314,000,000 | 2004 | 6,408 | 79 |
| 171 |  Saint Lucia |
257,000,000 | 2004 | 1,586 | 32 |
| 172 |  Comoros |
232,000,000 | 2000 est. | 430 | 115 |
| 173 |  Dominica |
213,000,000 | 2004 | 3,000 | 75 |
| 174 |  Samoa |
177,000,000 | 2004 | 968 | 47 |
| 175 |  Solomon Islands |
166,000,000 | 2004 | 355 | 44 |
| — |  Bermuda |
160,000,000 | FY99/00 | 2,575 | 5 |
| — |  Cook Islands |
141,000,000 | 1996 est. | 7,756 | 0 |
| 176 |  Fiji |
127,000,000 | 2004 est. | 150 | 5 |
| 177 |  Marshall Islands |
87,000,000 | 2008 est. | 1,377 | 54 |
| 178 |  Vanuatu |
81,200,000 | 2004 | 389 | 22 |
| 179 |  Tonga |
80,700,000 | 2004 | 799 | 33 |
| — |  New Caledonia |
79,000,000 | 1998 est. | 385 | 3 |
| — |  Cayman Islands |
70,000,000 | 1996 | 2,078 | 7 |
| — |  Faroe Islands |
68,100,000 | 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 180 | 60,800,000 | FY05 est.
| 556 |
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| — |  Greenland |
58,000,000 | 2009 | 1,035 | 5 |
| — |  British Virgin Islands |
36,100,000 | 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 181 |  Nauru |
33,300,000 | 2004 est. | 0 | 0 |
| 182 |  Kiribati |
10,000,000 | 1999 est. | 120 | 14 |
| — |  Montserrat |
8,900,000 | 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| — |  Anguilla |
8,800,000 | 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| — |  Wallis and Futuna |
3,670,000 | 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| — |  Niue |
418,000 | 2002 est. | 0 | 0 |
| — |  Macau |
0 | 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 183 |  Republic of China |
0 | 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 184 |  Liechtenstein |
0 | 2011 | 0 | 0 |
| 185 |  India |
0 | 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 186 |  Mainland China |
0 | FY99/00 | 0 | 0 |
See also
- List of sovereign states by public debt
- Domestic Liability DollarizationDomestic liability dollarizationDomestic liability dollarization refers to the denomination of banking system deposits and lending in a currency other than that of the country in which they are held...
- List of sovereign states by external assets
- Net international investment positionNet international investment positionThe difference between a country's external financial assets and its liabilities is the net international investment position . Both public and private held external assets and liabilities by legal residents of the respective country are hereby taken into account...
- Balance of tradeBalance of tradeThe balance of trade is the difference between the monetary value of exports and imports of output in an economy over a certain period. It is the relationship between a nation's imports and exports...
External links
- www.jedh.org - Gross external debt (Joint External Debt Hub)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2079rank.html