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The World Factbook 2002
  Field Listing - Debt - external


This entry gives the total amount of public foreign financial obligations.
Country
Debt - external
Afghanistan $5.5 billion (1996 est.)
Albania $1 billion (2000)
Algeria $24.7 billion (2001 est.)
American Samoa $NA
Andorra $NA
Angola $10.4 billion (2001 est.)
Anguilla $8.8 million (1998)
Antigua and Barbuda $231 million (1999)
Argentina $155 billion (2001 est.)
Armenia $839 million (June 2001)
Aruba $285 million (1996)
Australia $168.7 billion (2001 est.)
Austria $12.1 billion (2001 est.)
Azerbaijan $1.5 billion (2001)
Bahamas, The $381.9 million (2000)
Bahrain $2.8 billion (2000)
Bangladesh $17 billion (2000)
Barbados $425 million (2000 est.)
Belarus $770 million (2001 est.)
Belgium $28.3 billion (1999 est.)
Belize $500 million (2000 est.)
Benin $1.18 billion (2000)
Bermuda $145 million (FY99/00)
Bhutan $245 million (1998)
Bolivia $5.8 billion (2001 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina $2.8 billion (2001)
Botswana $325 million (2001)
Brazil $251 billion (2001)
British Virgin Islands $36.1 million (1997)
Brunei $0
Bulgaria $10.2 billion (2001 est.)
Burkina Faso $1.5 billion (1999)
Burma $6 billion (FY99/00 est.)
Burundi $1.12 billion (2001 est.)
Cambodia $829 million (1999 est.)
Cameroon $10.9 billion (2000 est.)
Canada $1.9 billion (2000)
Cape Verde $301 million (2000)
Cayman Islands $70 million (1996)
Central African Republic $881.4 million (2000 est.)
Chad $1.1 billion (2000 est.)
Chile $39.6 billion (2001)
China $167 billion (2001 est.)
Christmas Island $NA
Cocos (Keeling) Islands $NA
Colombia $39 billion (2001 est.)
Comoros $225 million (yearend 2000 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the $12.9 billion (2000 est.)
Congo, Republic of the $5 billion (1999 est.)
Cook Islands $141 million (1996 est.)
Costa Rica $4.6 billion (2001 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire $13.3 billion (2000 est.)
Croatia $11 billion (2001)
Cuba $11 billion (convertible currency, 2000 est.); another $15 billion -$20 billion owed to Russia (2001)
Cyprus Greek Cypriot area: $NA; Turkish Cypriot area: $NA
Czech Republic $24.6 billion (2001)
Denmark $21.7 billion (2000)
Djibouti $366 million (2002 est.)
Dominica $150 million (2000)
Dominican Republic $5.4 billion (2001 est.)
East Timor $NA
Ecuador $14 billion (2001)
Egypt $29 billion (2001 est.)
El Salvador $4.9 billion (2001 est.)
Equatorial Guinea $225 million (2000 est.)
Eritrea $281 million (2000 est.)
Estonia $0 (2001 est.)
Ethiopia $5.3 billion (2001 est.)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) $NA
Faroe Islands $64 million (1999)
Fiji $162.7 million (1999)
Finland $30 billion (December 1993)
France $106 billion (1998)
French Guiana $1.2 billion (1988)
French Polynesia $NA
Gabon $3.6 billion (2001 est.)
Gambia, The $440 million (2001 est.)
Gaza Strip $108 million (includes West Bank) (1997 est.)
Georgia $1.7 billion (2001)
Germany $NA
Ghana $5.96 billion (2001 est.)
Gibraltar $NA
Greece $57 billion (2000 est.)
Greenland $25 million (1999)
Grenada $196 million (2000)
Guadeloupe $NA
Guam $NA
Guatemala $4.5 billion (2001 est.)
Guernsey $NA
Guinea $3.6 billion (1999 est.)
Guinea-Bissau $931 million (1999 est.)
Guyana $1.1 billion (2000)
Haiti $1.2 billion (1999)
Honduras $5.6 billion (2001)
Hong Kong $58.8 billion (2001 est.)
Hungary $28.5 billion (2001)
Iceland $2.6 billion (1999)
India $100.3 billion (end-March 2001)
Indonesia $135 billion (2001 est.)
Iran $7.3 billion (2001 est.)
Iraq $62.2 billion (2001 est.)
Ireland $11 billion (1998)
Israel $42.8 billion (2001 est.)
Italy $NA
Jamaica $5.2 billion (2001 est.)
Japan $NA
Jersey none
Jordan $7.9 billion (2001 est.)
Kazakhstan $11.6 billion (2001 est.)
Kenya $8 billion (2001 est.)
Kiribati $10 million (1999 est.)
Korea, North $12 billion (1996 est.)
Korea, South $120.5 billion (2001)
Kuwait $6.9 billion (2000 est.)
Kyrgyzstan $1.6 billion (2001 est.)
Laos $2.53 billion (1999)
Latvia $2.6 billion (2000 est.)
Lebanon $8.4 billion (2001 est.)
Lesotho $715 million (2001 est.)
Liberia $2.1 billion (2000 est.)
Libya $4.7 billion (2001 est.)
Liechtenstein $0 (1996)
Lithuania $3.6 billion (2001 est.)
Luxembourg $NA
Macau $1.5 billion (1998)
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of $1.3 billion (2001 est.)
Madagascar $4.5 billion (2000)
Malawi $2.8 billion (2001 est.)
Malaysia $44.7 billion (2001 est.)
Maldives $237 million (2000 est.)
Mali $3.3 billion (2000)
Malta $130 million (1997)
Man, Isle of $NA
Marshall Islands $86.5 million (FY99/00 est.)
Martinique $180 million (1994)
Mauritania $1.6 billion (2000)
Mauritius $2.3 billion (2000 est.)
Mayotte $NA
Mexico $191 billion (2001)
Micronesia, Federated States of $66.5 million (FY99/00 est.)
Moldova $700 million (2001)
Monaco $NA
Mongolia $760 million (2000 est.)
Montserrat $8.9 million (1997)
Morocco $19 billion (2001 est.)
Mozambique $1 billion (2001 est.)
Namibia $217 million (2000 est.)
Nauru $33.3 million
Nepal $2.55 billion (FY00/01)
Netherlands Antilles $1.35 billion (1996)
New Caledonia $79 million (1998 est.)
New Zealand $31.1 billion (2001 est.)
Nicaragua $6.1 billion (2001 est.)
Niger $1.6 billion (1999 est.)
Nigeria $32 billion (2000 est.)
Niue $NA
Norfolk Island $NA
Northern Mariana Islands $NA
Norway $0 (Norway is a net external creditor)
Oman $5.3 billion (2000 est.)
Pakistan $31.5 billion (2001 est.)
Palau $0 (FY99/00)
Panama $7.6 billion (2001 est.)
Papua New Guinea $2.6 billion (2000 est.)
Paraguay $2.9 billion (2001 est.)
Peru $33.1 billion (2001 est.)
Philippines $50 billion (2001)
Pitcairn Islands $NA
Poland $57 billion (2000)
Portugal $13.1 billion (1997 est.)
Puerto Rico $NA
Qatar $13.1 billion (2000 est.)
Reunion $NA
Romania $11.6 billion (2001 est.)
Russia $157 billion (2001 est.)
Rwanda $1.3 billion (2000 est.)
Saint Helena $NA
Saint Kitts and Nevis $140 million (2000)
Saint Lucia $214 million (2000)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon $NA
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines $167.2 million (2000)
Samoa $192 million (1999)
San Marino $NA
Sao Tome and Principe $253.8 million (2000)
Saudi Arabia $23.8 billion (2001 est.)
Senegal $3.1 billion (2002 est.)
Seychelles $240 million (1999 est.)
Sierra Leone $1.3 billion (2000)
Singapore $8.3 billion (2001 est.)
Slovakia $7.8 billion (2001 est.)
Slovenia $6.6 billion (2001)
Solomon Islands $137 million (2001 est.)
Somalia $2.6 billion (2000 est.)
South Africa $25.5 billion (2001 est.)
Spain $90 billion (1993 est.)
Sri Lanka $9.9 billion (2000)
Sudan $24.9 billion (2000 est.)
Suriname $512 million (2000 est.)
Swaziland $336 million (2001 est.)
Sweden $66.5 billion (1994)
Switzerland $NA
Syria $22 billion (2001 est.)
Taiwan $40 billion (2000)
Tajikistan $1.23 billion (2000 est.)
Tanzania $6.8 billion (2000 est.)
Thailand $69.4 billion (2001 est.)
Togo $1.5 billion (1999)
Tokelau $0
Tonga $57.5 million (June 2001)
Trinidad and Tobago $2.2 billion (2000 est.)
Tunisia $11.5 billion (2001 est.)
Turkey $118.8 billion (September 2001)
Turkmenistan $2.3 billion to $5 billion (2001 est.)
Turks and Caicos Islands $NA
Tuvalu $NA
Uganda $3.4 billion (2001 est.)
Ukraine $11.8 billion (2001)
United Arab Emirates $12.6 billion (2001 est.)
United Kingdom $NA
United States $862 billion (1995 est.)
Uruguay $7.7 billion (2001 est.)
Uzbekistan $5.1 billion (2001 est.)
Vanuatu $64.6 million (1999 est.)
Venezuela $34.5 billion (2000)
Vietnam $13.2 billion (2000)
Virgin Islands $NA
Wallis and Futuna $NA
West Bank $108 million (includes Gaza Strip) (1997 est.)
Western Sahara $NA
World $2 trillion for less developed countries (2001 est.)
Yemen $4.7 billion (2001)
Yugoslavia $9.2 billion (2001 est.)
Zambia $5.8 billion (2001)
Zimbabwe $5 billion (2001 est.)

This page was last updated on 1 January 2002
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