Dominica: Short-term debt to reserves

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 Dominica

Short-term external debt, percent of international reserves

 Latest value 114.01
 Year 2024
 Measure percent
 Data availability 1990 - 2024
 Average 71.87
 Min - Max 4.61 - 198.72
 Source The World Bank
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The latest value from 2024 is 114.01 percent, an increase from 96.51 percent in 2023. In comparison, the world average is 790.72 percent, based on data from 96 countries. Historically, the average for Dominica from 1990 to 2024 is 71.87 percent. The minimum value, 4.61 percent, was reached in 1993 while the maximum of 198.72 percent was recorded in 2013. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.
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 Recent values Dominica: Short-term debt to reserves
 2024 114.01
 2023 96.51
 2022 97.09
 2021 66.31
 2020 85.92
 2019 110.35
 2018 111.73
 2017 99.37




Definition: Debt of public and private domestic borrowers to non-residents with maturity of twelve months of less as percent of total foreign exchange reserves. Source: Kose, M. Ayhan, Sergio Kurlat, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara. 2022. "A Cross-Country Database of Fiscal Space." Journal of International Money and Finance 128 (November): 102682.

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 Terms of trade 71.80 2024 percent
 Financial openness -0.171 2022 index points
 Foreign Direct Investment, percent of GDP 6.84 2025 percent
 Foreign Direct Investment, billion dollars 0.05 2025 billion U.S. dollars
 Portfolio investment inflows, equities -0.13 2013 million dollars (current)
 Current account, percent of GDP -37.99 2025 percent
 Current account, in dollars -0.27 2025 billion U.S. dollars
 Trade balance, in dollars -0.27 2025 billion U.S. dollars
 Reserves 0.16 2025 billion U.S. dollars
 Remittances, percent of GDP 5.48 2025 percent
 Remittances 39.63 2025 million U.S. dollars
 Net errors and omissions 25.09 2025 million USD
 External debt 84.20 2024 percent
 Short-term external debt 30.26 2024 percent
 Short-term debt to reserves 114.01 2024 percent
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