Debt on Non-concessional terms to GDP (% of GDP) by country
Non-concessional 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. Concessional debt is defined as loans with an original grant element of 25 percent or more. The grant equivalent of a...
What the numbers show
Debt on Non-concessional terms to GDP (% of GDP) is currently reported for 50 countries. The highest value is 153.6% in Seychelles; the lowest is 1.9% in Chad.
The median across all reporting countries is 10.1%, and the mean is 16.7%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 81.
Over the past decade 10 countries rose and 40 fell. The largest increase was in Botswana (up 434.7%), and the largest decrease in Liberia (down 96.3%).
Debt on Non-concessional terms to GDP: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seychelles | 153.6% | 2011 | up 336.3% | volatile |
| 2 | Somalia | 88.7% | 1990 | up 371.7% | volatile |
| 3 | Zimbabwe | 45.8% | 2011 | up 36.8% | volatile |
| 4 | Tunisia | 37.4% | 2011 | down 20.1% | rising |
| 5 | South Africa | 27.8% | 2011 | up 35.4% | rising |
| 6 | Côte d'Ivoire | 24.5% | 2011 | down 66.7% | volatile |
| 7 | Sao Tome and Principe | 23.5% | 2011 | down 52.8% | falling |
| 8 | Sudan | 19.7% | 2011 | down 75.2% | volatile |
| 9 | Morocco | 19.6% | 2011 | down 43.7% | volatile |
| 10 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 19.1% | 2011 | down 89.6% | volatile |
| 11 | Djibouti | 18.8% | 2009 | up 368.0% | volatile |
| 12 | Tanzania, United Republic of | 17.8% | 2011 | up 23.6% | volatile |
| 13 | Liberia | 17.5% | 2011 | down 96.3% | volatile |
| 14 | Sierra Leone | 17.4% | 2011 | down 41.0% | volatile |
| 15 | Zambia | 16.3% | 2011 | down 77.2% | volatile |
| 16 | Angola | 16.1% | 2011 | down 90.9% | volatile |
| 17 | Ghana | 16.1% | 2011 | down 59.3% | rising |
| 18 | Mauritania | 15.4% | 2011 | down 66.3% | volatile |
| 19 | Central African Republic | 14.7% | 2011 | down 24.2% | rising |
| 20 | Gabon | 13.9% | 2011 | down 69.4% | flat |
| 21 | Botswana | 12.2% | 2011 | up 434.7% | volatile |
| 22 | Ethiopia | 10.7% | 2011 | up 26.2% | falling |
| 23 | Eswatini | 10.7% | 2011 | up 4.5% | volatile |
| 24 | Burundi | 10.6% | 2011 | down 36.0% | volatile |
| 25 | Guinea | 10.3% | 2011 | down 61.6% | falling |
| 26 | Congo | 9.9% | 2011 | down 90.3% | volatile |
| 27 | Cape Verde | 9.7% | 2011 | up 28.8% | volatile |
| 28 | Kenya | 9.6% | 2011 | down 15.1% | volatile |
| 29 | Senegal | 9.6% | 2011 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 30 | Madagascar | 9.6% | 2011 | down 68.6% | volatile |
| 31 | Gambia | 9.5% | 2011 | down 9.5% | volatile |
| 32 | Togo | 9.4% | 2011 | down 71.4% | volatile |
| 33 | Guinea-Bissau | 8.5% | 2011 | down 93.7% | volatile |
| 34 | Mauritius | 7.6% | 2011 | down 42.2% | volatile |
| 35 | Egypt | 6.6% | 2011 | down 11.9% | volatile |
| 36 | Mozambique | 6.4% | 2011 | down 90.1% | volatile |
| 37 | Eritrea | 6.1% | 2011 | down 22.0% | volatile |
| 38 | Uganda | 5.9% | 2011 | down 51.4% | volatile |
| 39 | Malawi | 5.5% | 2011 | down 53.8% | volatile |
| 40 | Lesotho | 5.5% | 2011 | down 79.6% | volatile |
| 41 | Comoros | 5.3% | 2011 | down 58.2% | falling |
| 42 | Niger | 5.2% | 2011 | down 72.6% | volatile |
| 43 | Mali | 4.6% | 2011 | down 73.1% | volatile |
| 44 | Cameroon | 4.3% | 2011 | down 91.3% | volatile |
| 45 | Burkina Faso | 3.7% | 2011 | down 57.8% | volatile |
| 46 | Benin | 3.3% | 2011 | down 69.3% | volatile |
| 47 | Nigeria | 3.3% | 2011 | down 94.8% | volatile |
| 48 | Algeria | 2.4% | 2011 | down 93.4% | volatile |
| 49 | Rwanda | 2.2% | 2011 | down 73.8% | volatile |
| 50 | Chad | 1.9% | 2011 | down 82.7% | 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
Non-concessional 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. 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. Long-term debt outstanding and disbursed (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.