Debt on Concessional terms to export ratio (% of exports) by country
Concessional Long-term Debt Outstanding and Disbursed (LDOD) conveys information about the borrower's receipt of aid from official lenders at concessional terms as defined by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD. Concessional debt is defined as loans with an original grant element of 25 percent or...
What the numbers show
Debt on Concessional terms to export ratio (% of exports) is currently reported for 36 countries. The highest value is 453.4% in Sao Tome and Principe; the lowest is 1.9% in Algeria.
The median across all reporting countries is 58.6%, and the mean is 79.0%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 233.
Over the past decade 5 countries rose and 31 fell. The largest increase was in Djibouti (up 21.7%), and the largest decrease in Liberia (down 93.8%).
Debt on Concessional terms to export ratio: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sao Tome and Principe | 453.4% | 2011 | down 70.4% | volatile |
| 2 | Guinea-Bissau | 418.6% | 2010 | down 39.4% | falling |
| 3 | Guinea | 164.2% | 2011 | down 35.3% | falling |
| 4 | Djibouti | 136.0% | 2011 | up 21.7% | rising |
| 5 | Burundi | 134.6% | 2011 | down 88.5% | volatile |
| 6 | Gambia | 92.9% | 2011 | down 62.0% | falling |
| 7 | Burkina Faso | 91.6% | 2010 | down 68.7% | falling |
| 8 | Rwanda | 89.6% | 2011 | down 81.4% | volatile |
| 9 | Sierra Leone | 87.9% | 2011 | down 80.7% | volatile |
| 10 | Cape Verde | 86.3% | 2011 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 11 | Ethiopia | 84.4% | 2011 | down 65.0% | volatile |
| 12 | Mozambique | 81.5% | 2011 | down 44.0% | falling |
| 13 | Sudan | 78.6% | 2011 | down 18.5% | falling |
| 14 | Tanzania | 75.1% | 2011 | down 62.1% | volatile |
| 15 | Mali | 74.5% | 2010 | down 60.3% | falling |
| 16 | Niger | 65.8% | 2010 | down 76.0% | volatile |
| 17 | Kenya | 63.0% | 2011 | down 25.3% | falling |
| 18 | Benin | 60.0% | 2010 | down 60.8% | volatile |
| 19 | Uganda | 57.3% | 2011 | down 72.6% | volatile |
| 20 | Senegal | 56.6% | 2010 | down 45.0% | falling |
| 21 | Togo | 56.4% | 2010 | down 48.2% | falling |
| 22 | Malawi | 54.7% | 2011 | down 88.3% | volatile |
| 23 | Cote d'Ivoire | 43.2% | 2010 | down 32.3% | falling |
| 24 | Cameroon | 35.7% | 2010 | down 69.6% | volatile |
| 25 | Lesotho | 33.7% | 2011 | down 11.0% | flat |
| 26 | Ghana | 33.6% | 2011 | down 74.2% | volatile |
| 27 | Egypt | 32.0% | 2011 | down 45.0% | falling |
| 28 | Morocco | 23.5% | 2011 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 29 | Tunisia | 20.2% | 2011 | down 7.0% | falling |
| 30 | Seychelles | 13.5% | 2011 | down 17.1% | flat |
| 31 | Zambia | 13.4% | 2011 | down 89.5% | volatile |
| 32 | Liberia | 11.0% | 2011 | down 93.8% | volatile |
| 33 | Eswatini | 7.3% | 2010 | up 6.1% | rising |
| 34 | Botswana | 5.7% | 2010 | up 13.8% | rising |
| 35 | Nigeria | 4.4% | 2011 | down 70.8% | volatile |
| 36 | Algeria | 1.9% | 2011 | down 66.5% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
About this data
Concessional Long-term Debt Outstanding and Disbursed (LDOD) conveys information about the borrower's receipt of aid from official lenders at concessional terms as defined by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD. Concessional debt is defined as loans with an original grant element of 25 percent or more. The grant equivalent of a loan is its commitment (present) value, less the discounted present value of its contractual debt service; conventionally, future service payments are discounted at 10 percent. The grant element of a loan is the grant equivalent expressed as a percentage of the amount committed. It is used as a measure of the overall cost of borrowing. Loans from major regional development banks--African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank--and from the World Bank are classified as concessional according to each institution's classification and not according to the DAC definition, as was the practice in earlier reports. LDOD is the total outstanding long-term debt at year end. Long-term external debt is defined as debt that has an original or extended maturity of more than one year and that is owed to nonresidents and repayable in currency, goods, or services. The denominator is the sum of total goods and service exports (per the balance of payments account) and workers' remittances (per the balance of payments account).