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Debt on Concessional terms to GDP (% of GDP) 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...

Countries reporting
49
Highest
169.8%
Somalia
Lowest
0.8%
Algeria
Median
16.4%
Years covered
42
1970–2011
Data points
2,120

What the numbers show

Debt on Concessional terms to GDP (% of GDP) is currently reported for 49 countries. The highest value is 169.8% in Somalia; the lowest is 0.8% in Algeria.

The median across all reporting countries is 16.4%, and the mean is 22.9%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 203.

Over the past decade 2 countries rose and 47 fell. The largest increase was in Somalia (up 87.6%), and the largest decrease in Zambia (down 93.5%).

Debt on Concessional terms to GDP: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Somalia 169.8% 1990 up 87.6% volatile
2 Sao Tome and Principe 69.6% 2011 down 80.3% volatile
3 Djibouti 66.4% 2009 up 43.7% rising
4 Guinea 51.3% 2011 down 33.7% rising
5 Mauritania 48.9% 2011 down 62.9% rising
6 Cape Verde 44.2% 2011 down 18.1% rising
7 Gambia 42.4% 2011 down 31.0% volatile
8 Comoros 40.2% 2011 down 58.1% falling
9 Eritrea 34.4% 2011 down 37.7% volatile
10 Lesotho 27.2% 2011 down 53.5% volatile
11 Mozambique 25.7% 2011 down 55.1% volatile
12 Côte d'Ivoire 25.4% 2011 down 31.0% volatile
13 Tanzania, United Republic of 24.2% 2011 down 49.8% falling
14 Mali 22.5% 2011 down 75.7% rising
15 Kenya 20.9% 2011 down 33.8% volatile
16 Guinea-Bissau 20.8% 2011 down 93.5% volatile
17 Senegal 20.6% 2011 down 63.6% volatile
18 Burkina Faso 19.5% 2011 down 56.2% volatile
19 Zimbabwe 19.2% 2011 down 2.5% volatile
20 Madagascar 18.3% 2011 down 70.3% volatile
21 Niger 18.2% 2011 down 71.9% volatile
22 Sierra Leone 17.8% 2011 down 78.8% volatile
23 Ethiopia 17.7% 2011 down 71.9% volatile
24 Uganda 17.0% 2011 down 67.4% volatile
25 Burundi 16.4% 2011 down 85.9% volatile
26 Benin 16.2% 2011 down 66.3% volatile
27 Malawi 15.9% 2011 down 88.6% volatile
28 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 15.7% 2011 down 75.6% volatile
29 Chad 15.3% 2011 down 71.2% volatile
30 Rwanda 15.2% 2011 down 78.2% volatile
31 Seychelles 14.3% 2011 down 13.8% falling
32 Sudan 13.4% 2011 down 63.9% volatile
33 Ghana 12.7% 2011 down 84.9% volatile
34 Central African Republic 11.4% 2011 down 84.3% volatile
35 Liberia 11.4% 2011 down 90.5% volatile
36 Tunisia 10.7% 2011 down 8.8% falling
37 Morocco 9.4% 2011 down 38.5% falling
38 Egypt 8.6% 2011 down 57.8% falling
39 Togo 8.4% 2011 down 88.6% volatile
40 Cameroon 7.9% 2011 down 84.8% volatile
41 Congo 7.6% 2011 down 87.0% volatile
42 Zambia 6.4% 2011 down 93.5% volatile
43 Mauritius 5.1% 2011 down 13.6% falling
44 Eswatini 4.1% 2011 down 58.5% falling
45 Angola 4.1% 2011 down 76.3% volatile
46 Gabon 3.0% 2011 down 89.2% volatile
47 Nigeria 2.1% 2011 down 25.2% volatile
48 Botswana 1.6% 2011 down 63.8% volatile
49 Algeria 0.8% 2011 down 83.5% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Debt on Concessional terms to GDP (% of GDP)
Unit
% of GDP
Source
World Bank, Global Development Finance
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
56 places, 2,120 data points, 1970–2011
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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.