Debt on Non-concessional terms (current US$) by country
Non-concessional Long-term Debt Outstanding and Disbursed (LDOD) conveys information about the borrower's receipt of aid from official lenders on non-concessional terms as defined by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD. This is the difference between the total debt outstanding and disbursed less...
What the numbers show
Debt on Non-concessional terms (current US$) is currently reported for 49 countries. The highest value is 113.51 billion current US$ in South Africa; the lowest is 32.44 million current US$ in Comoros.
The median across all reporting countries is 952.91 million current US$, and the mean is 5.35 billion current US$.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3,500.
Over the past decade 33 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in Botswana (up 1,435.5%), and the largest decrease in Liberia (down 88.8%).
Debt on Non-concessional terms: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | 113.51 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 366.6% | volatile |
| 2 | Morocco | 19.66 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 49.4% | volatile |
| 3 | Tunisia | 17.35 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 68.2% | volatile |
| 4 | Angola | 16.85 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 110.7% | rising |
| 5 | Egypt | 15.25 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 107.1% | volatile |
| 6 | Sudan | 12.61 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 20.3% | volatile |
| 7 | Nigeria | 7.94 billion current US$ | 2011 | down 73.4% | volatile |
| 8 | Ghana | 6.30 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 200.2% | volatile |
| 9 | Cote d'Ivoire | 5.90 billion current US$ | 2011 | down 23.9% | volatile |
| 10 | Algeria | 4.50 billion current US$ | 2011 | down 77.5% | volatile |
| 11 | Zimbabwe | 4.42 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 94.9% | volatile |
| 12 | Tanzania | 4.26 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 184.2% | volatile |
| 13 | Ethiopia | 3.25 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 374.5% | volatile |
| 14 | Kenya | 3.24 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 119.7% | volatile |
| 15 | Zambia | 3.14 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 20.0% | rising |
| 16 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 2.99 billion current US$ | 2011 | down 65.3% | volatile |
| 17 | Gabon | 2.37 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 10.6% | volatile |
| 18 | Botswana | 2.12 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 1,435.5% | volatile |
| 19 | Seychelles | 1.63 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 647.5% | volatile |
| 20 | Congo | 1.43 billion current US$ | 2011 | down 50.1% | volatile |
| 21 | Somalia | 1.43 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 27.3% | volatile |
| 22 | Senegal | 1.38 billion current US$ | 2011 | up 46.4% | volatile |
| 23 | Cameroon | 1.08 billion current US$ | 2011 | down 77.2% | volatile |
| 24 | Uganda | 992.48 million current US$ | 2011 | up 39.8% | volatile |
| 25 | Madagascar | 952.91 million current US$ | 2011 | down 31.3% | volatile |
| 26 | Mauritius | 858.38 million current US$ | 2011 | up 43.4% | volatile |
| 27 | Mozambique | 818.73 million current US$ | 2011 | down 69.0% | volatile |
| 28 | Mauritania | 649.26 million current US$ | 2011 | up 9.6% | volatile |
| 29 | Guinea | 526.39 million current US$ | 2011 | down 31.1% | rising |
| 30 | Sierra Leone | 518.52 million current US$ | 2011 | up 62.4% | volatile |
| 31 | Mali | 496.70 million current US$ | 2011 | up 10.8% | volatile |
| 32 | Eswatini | 437.05 million current US$ | 2011 | up 216.6% | volatile |
| 33 | Burkina Faso | 388.54 million current US$ | 2011 | up 55.9% | volatile |
| 34 | Togo | 339.00 million current US$ | 2011 | down 22.3% | rising |
| 35 | Central African Republic | 322.17 million current US$ | 2011 | up 78.5% | rising |
| 36 | Niger | 312.89 million current US$ | 2011 | down 15.3% | volatile |
| 37 | Malawi | 311.00 million current US$ | 2011 | up 51.2% | volatile |
| 38 | Liberia | 271.04 million current US$ | 2011 | down 88.8% | volatile |
| 39 | Burundi | 247.34 million current US$ | 2011 | up 81.0% | volatile |
| 40 | Benin | 239.90 million current US$ | 2011 | down 10.3% | volatile |
| 41 | Chad | 201.82 million current US$ | 2011 | up 7.0% | volatile |
| 42 | Cape Verde | 184.62 million current US$ | 2011 | up 335.1% | volatile |
| 44 | Eritrea | 159.07 million current US$ | 2011 | up 196.1% | volatile |
| 45 | Rwanda | 137.28 million current US$ | 2011 | down 0.3% | volatile |
| 46 | Lesotho | 132.72 million current US$ | 2011 | down 29.9% | volatile |
| 47 | Gambia | 85.59 million current US$ | 2011 | up 18.3% | volatile |
| 48 | Guinea-Bissau | 82.38 million current US$ | 2011 | down 69.1% | volatile |
| 49 | Sao Tome and Principe | 58.28 million current US$ | 2011 | up 53.3% | volatile |
| 50 | Comoros | 32.44 million current US$ | 2011 | up 15.9% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Africa 262.51 billion current US$
- Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 205.59 billion current US$
- Sub-Saharan Africa 205.59 billion current US$
- Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa 92.08 billion current US$
- Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria 84.14 billion current US$
- North Africa 56.92 billion current US$
About this data
Non-concessional Long-term Debt Outstanding and Disbursed (LDOD) conveys information about the borrower's receipt of aid from official lenders on non-concessional terms as defined by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD. This is the difference between the total debt outstanding and disbursed less debt on concessional terms. 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. Data are in current U.S. dollars.