Portugal: Short-term debt to reserves

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 Portugal

Short-term external debt, percent of international reserves

 Latest value 419.81
 Year 2024
 Measure percent
 Data availability 1998 - 2024
 Average 842.92
 Min - Max 277.62 - 1,699.29
 Source The World Bank
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The latest value from 2024 is 419.81 percent, a decline from 506.42 percent in 2023. In comparison, the world average is 790.72 percent, based on data from 96 countries. Historically, the average for Portugal from 1998 to 2024 is 842.92 percent. The minimum value, 277.62 percent, was reached in 1998 while the maximum of 1699.29 percent was recorded in 2007. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.
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 Recent values Portugal: Short-term debt to reserves
 2024 419.81
 2023 506.42
 2022 538.50
 2021 551.34
 2020 658.59
 2019 703.76
 2018 747.78
 2017 682.96




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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