Debt outstanding and disbursed, Total per capita (DOD, current US$) by country
Total external debt is debt owed to nonresidents repayable in currency, goods, or services. Total external debt is the sum of public, publicly guaranteed, and private nonguaranteed long-term debt, use of IMF credit, and short-term debt. Short-term debt includes all debt having an original maturity of one year or...
What the numbers show
Debt outstanding and disbursed, Total per capita (DOD, current US$) is currently reported for 49 countries. The highest value is 20,692 DOD, current US$ in Seychelles; the lowest is 73.2 DOD, current US$ in Burundi.
The median across all reporting countries is 262.63 DOD, current US$, and the mean is 912.93 DOD, current US$.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 283.
Over the past decade 20 countries rose and 29 fell. The largest increase was in Seychelles (up 424.1%), and the largest decrease in Liberia (down 89.5%).
Debt outstanding and disbursed, Total per capita: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seychelles | 20,692 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 424.1% | volatile |
| 2 | South Africa | 2,244 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 314.2% | volatile |
| 3 | Tunisia | 2,093 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 56.7% | volatile |
| 4 | Cape Verde | 2,048 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 163.2% | volatile |
| 5 | Gabon | 1,876 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 31.0% | rising |
| 6 | Sao Tome and Principe | 1,371 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 36.3% | volatile |
| 7 | Botswana | 1,180 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 419.5% | volatile |
| 8 | Mauritius | 1,116 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 54.3% | volatile |
| 9 | Angola | 1,076 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 76.4% | flat |
| 10 | Morocco | 900.1 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 38.7% | rising |
| 12 | Mauritania | 764.87 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 9.4% | rising |
| 13 | Sudan | 616.83 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 13.2% | rising |
| 14 | Congo | 609.48 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 56.4% | volatile |
| 15 | Cote d'Ivoire | 596.05 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 13.4% | rising |
| 16 | Eswatini | 566.17 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 111.2% | rising |
| 17 | Zimbabwe | 492.02 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 71.7% | volatile |
| 18 | Ghana | 452.16 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 35.2% | rising |
| 19 | Egypt | 424.06 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 7.1% | rising |
| 20 | Comoros | 368.65 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 11.0% | volatile |
| 21 | Lesotho | 360.96 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 19.2% | volatile |
| 22 | Senegal | 338.33 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 10.8% | rising |
| 23 | Zambia | 323.55 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 45.4% | rising |
| 24 | Somalia | 319.15 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 6.0% | volatile |
| 25 | Guinea | 307.1 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 12.1% | rising |
| 26 | Gambia | 262.63 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 29.1% | volatile |
| 27 | Kenya | 246.53 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 42.1% | rising |
| 28 | Tanzania | 217.31 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 16.6% | rising |
| 29 | Eritrea | 194.86 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 71.7% | volatile |
| 30 | Mali | 185.02 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 25.2% | volatile |
| 31 | Guinea-Bissau | 183.36 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 74.3% | volatile |
| 32 | Sierra Leone | 174.87 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 38.6% | rising |
| 33 | Mozambique | 171.2 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 35.6% | falling |
| 34 | Algeria | 168.76 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 77.0% | volatile |
| 35 | Chad | 157.99 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 22.6% | volatile |
| 36 | Benin | 156.34 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 28.5% | rising |
| 37 | Cameroon | 153.48 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 74.7% | volatile |
| 38 | Burkina Faso | 142.62 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 19.8% | volatile |
| 39 | Madagascar | 129.92 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 50.7% | volatile |
| 40 | Central African Republic | 127.71 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 44.1% | volatile |
| 41 | Uganda | 111.8 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 25.9% | volatile |
| 42 | Liberia | 108.42 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 89.5% | volatile |
| 43 | Togo | 104.49 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 63.8% | rising |
| 44 | Ethiopia | 101.45 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | up 18.7% | volatile |
| 45 | Rwanda | 100.83 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 34.4% | volatile |
| 46 | Niger | 87.65 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 39.2% | volatile |
| 47 | Nigeria | 80.68 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 67.3% | volatile |
| 48 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 80.41 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 64.7% | rising |
| 49 | Malawi | 78.18 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 65.3% | volatile |
| 50 | Burundi | 73.2 DOD, current US$ | 2011 | down 56.5% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- North Africa 574.15 DOD, current US$
- Africa 379.5 DOD, current US$
- Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 342.84 DOD, current US$
- Sub-Saharan Africa 342.84 DOD, current US$
- Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria 260.31 DOD, current US$
- Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa 224.35 DOD, current US$
About this data
Total external debt is debt owed to nonresidents repayable in currency, goods, or services. Total external debt is the sum of public, publicly guaranteed, and private nonguaranteed long-term debt, use of IMF credit, and short-term debt. Short-term debt includes all debt having an original maturity of one year or less and interest in arrears on long-term debt. Data are in current U.S. dollars per inhabitant of the country.