Short-term external debt - Country rankings
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Short-term debt, percent of total external debt, 2024:
The average for 2024 based on 38 countries was 30.56 percent. The highest value was in the United Kingdom: 70.71 percent and the lowest value was in Hungary: 9.81 percent. The indicator is available from 1990 to 2024. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.Measure: percent; Source: The World Bank
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| Countries | Short-term external debt, 2024 | Global rank | Available data |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK | 70.71 | 1 | 1999 - 2024 |
| Switzerland | 51 | 2 | 1999 - 2024 |
| Lithuania | 49.92 | 3 | 2003 - 2024 |
| France | 43.88 | 4 | 2002 - 2024 |
| Belgium | 41.77 | 5 | 2003 - 2024 |
| Portugal | 40.9 | 6 | 1998 - 2024 |
| Ireland | 40.01 | 7 | 2002 - 2024 |
| Russia | 39.85 | 8 | 2003 - 2024 |
| Spain | 37.46 | 9 | 2002 - 2024 |
| Slovakia | 36.09 | 10 | 2003 - 2024 |
| Czechia | 36.04 | 11 | 1999 - 2024 |
| Slovenia | 35.88 | 12 | 2001 - 2024 |
| Norway | 35.83 | 13 | 2003 - 2024 |
| Germany | 35.54 | 14 | 2001 - 2024 |
| Turkey | 33.83 | 15 | 1990 - 2024 |
| Italy | 33.36 | 16 | 2002 - 2024 |
| Sweden | 32.73 | 17 | 1998 - 2024 |
| Croatia | 32 | 18 | 1999 - 2024 |
| Greece | 31.49 | 19 | 2003 - 2024 |
| Finland | 30.39 | 20 | 2002 - 2024 |
| Denmark | 29.92 | 21 | 2003 - 2024 |
| Estonia | 29.78 | 22 | 1998 - 2024 |
| Austria | 29.36 | 23 | 2003 - 2024 |
| Belarus | 28.1 | 24 | 1993 - 2024 |
| Luxembourg | 27.27 | 25 | 2002 - 2024 |
| Cyprus | 24.53 | 26 | 2008 - 2024 |
| Moldova | 23.73 | 27 | 1992 - 2024 |
| Netherlands | 23.6 | 28 | 2003 - 2024 |
| North Macedonia | 21.6 | 29 | 1993 - 2024 |
| Bosnia & Herz. | 20.6 | 30 | 1999 - 2024 |
| Malta | 20.25 | 31 | 2008 - 2024 |
| Bulgaria | 20.14 | 32 | 2005 - 2024 |
| Poland | 17.8 | 33 | 1999 - 2024 |
| Ukraine | 12.17 | 34 | 1992 - 2024 |
| Albania | 12.08 | 35 | 1991 - 2024 |
| Iceland | 11.58 | 36 | 1998 - 2024 |
| Romania | 10.19 | 37 | 2008 - 2024 |
| Hungary | 9.81 | 38 | 2002 - 2024 |
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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