External debt stocks
% of GNI
Stock of debt owed to non-residents, public and private, relative to gross national income.
Median : 44.7 % · 49 countries · latest available value : 2024
- 1 Mozambique 350.6 % 2024 −4.8 pp
- 2 Senegal 150.7 % 2024 −2.6 pp
- 3 Mauritius 123.2 % 2024 −0.4 pp
- 4 Zambia 114.2 % 2024 +3.5 pp
- 5 Rwanda 93.9 % 2024 +12.9 pp
- 6 Cabo Verde 86.9 % 2024 −11.3 pp
- 7 Djibouti 83.8 % 2024 −1.5 pp
- 8 Angola 79.6 % 2024 +5.0 pp
- 9 Tunisia 77.7 % 2024 −12.5 pp
- 10 Guinea-Bissau 67.1 % 2024 −1.0 pp
- 11 Benin 66.6 % 2024 +2.1 pp
- 12 The Gambia 66.4 % 2024 +10.6 pp
- 13 Lesotho 65.4 % 2024 −3.6 pp
- 14 Nigeria 60.0 % 2024 +31.0 pp
- 15 Eritrea 51.5 % 2011* −14.6 pp
- 16 Liberia 50.5 % 2024 −0.7 pp
- 17 Côte d’Ivoire 48.8 % 2024 +1.3 pp
- 18 Burkina Faso 48.8 % 2024 −5.0 pp
- 19 Tanzania 47.3 % 2024 +2.7 pp
- 20 Burundi 47.1 % 2024 +8.1 pp
- 21 Ghana 46.9 % 2024 −8.4 pp
- 22 Sudan 45.4 % 2024 −12.6 pp
- 23 Republic of the Congo 44.9 % 2024 −2.3 pp
- 24 South Africa 44.8 % 2024 +0.7 pp
- 25 Morocco 44.7 % 2024 −4.2 pp
- 26 Togo 43.2 % 2024 +5.7 pp
- 27 São Tomé and Príncipe 42.7 % 2024 −3.7 pp
- 28 Egypt 42.0 % 2024 −2.4 pp
- 29 Mauritania 41.8 % 2024 −1.2 pp
- 30 Uganda 39.2 % 2024 −3.5 pp
- 31 Madagascar 39.2 % 2024 −2.2 pp
- 32 Gabon 36.0 % 2024 −5.2 pp
- 33 Central African Republic 35.9 % 2024 −4.2 pp
- 34 Malawi 35.2 % 2024 +6.1 pp
- 35 Kenya 35.0 % 2024 −5.4 pp
- 36 Zimbabwe 33.0 % 2024 −8.8 pp
- 37 Cameroon 31.3 % 2024 −0.6 pp
- 38 Sierra Leone 31.1 % 2024 −6.7 pp
- 39 Eswatini 27.8 % 2024 −0.8 pp
- 40 Niger 27.5 % 2024 −6.5 pp
- 41 Mali 24.9 % 2024 −2.4 pp
- 42 Comoros 24.8 % 2024 −1.7 pp
- 43 Ethiopia 24.3 % 2022* −4.6 pp
- 44 Guinea 23.2 % 2024 −2.0 pp
- 45 Democratic Republic of the Congo 18.3 % 2024 −0.2 pp
- 46 Chad 16.4 % 2024 −0.5 pp
- 47 Somalia 14.9 % 2024 −13.4 pp
- 48 Botswana 11.9 % 2024 +0.7 pp
- 49 Algeria 2.7 % 2024 −0.3 pp
Each country is ranked on the latest value published by the source; the year is shown next to the value. * data older than the most recent year available.
No data available : Libya, Equatorial Guinea, Seychelles, South Sudan, Namibia.