Ireland: Short-term external debt

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 Ireland

Short-term debt, percent of total external debt

 Latest value 40.01
 Year 2024
 Measure percent
 Data availability 2002 - 2024
 Average 33.10
 Min - Max 3.92 - 55.42
 Source The World Bank
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The latest value from 2024 is 40.01 percent, an increase from 37.97 percent in 2023. In comparison, the world average is 23.55 percent, based on data from 104 countries. Historically, the average for Ireland from 2002 to 2024 is 33.1 percent. The minimum value, 3.92 percent, was reached in 2009 while the maximum of 55.42 percent was recorded in 2002. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.
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 Recent values Ireland: Short-term external debt
 2024 40.01
 2023 37.97
 2022 37.99
 2021 37.64
 2020 38.31
 2019 24.16
 2018 22.03
 2017 21.12




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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