Indonesia: Short-term external debt

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 Indonesia

Short-term debt, percent of total external debt

 Latest value 16.38
 Year 2024
 Measure percent
 Data availability 1990 - 2024
 Average 15.15
 Min - Max 7.76 - 24.98
 Source The World Bank
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The latest value from 2024 is 16.38 percent, an increase from 13.45 percent in 2023. In comparison, the world average is 23.55 percent, based on data from 104 countries. Historically, the average for Indonesia from 1990 to 2024 is 15.15 percent. The minimum value, 7.76 percent, was reached in 2005 while the maximum of 24.98 percent was recorded in 1996. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.
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 Recent values Indonesia: Short-term external debt
 2024 16.38
 2023 13.45
 2022 12.12
 2021 11.33
 2020 10.67
 2019 11.13
 2018 12.63
 2017 13.21




Definition: External debt with of public and private domestic borrowers to non-residents with maturity of twelve months of less as percent of total external debt. 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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