Country Comparison > Debt - external

Rank	Country	Debt - external (Billion US$)
1	United States	13,640
2	United Kingdom	9,170
3	Germany	5,250
4	France	5,002
5	Netherlands	2,470
6	Italy	2,328
7	Spain	2,313
8	Ireland	2,312
9	Japan	2,231
10	Luxembourg	1,933
11	Belgium	1,354
12	Switzerland	1,305
13	Austria	832.8
14	Australia	770.3
15	Canada	762.2
16	Hong Kong	659.9
17	Sweden	617.6
18	Denmark	585.1
19	Norway	558.5
20	Greece	504.6
21	Portugal	484.7
22	Russia	483.5
23	Korea, South	381.1
24	China	379.8
25	Finland	332.2
26	Turkey	277.1
27	Brazil	262.9
28	Poland	243.6
29	India	229.3
30	Hungary	212.1
31	Mexico	200.4
32	Indonesia	155.1
33	Argentina	128.2
34	United Arab Emirates	126.9
35	Kazakhstan	107.8
36	Ukraine	101.7
37	Romania	101.6
38	Taiwan	93.09
39	Israel	86.08
40	Czech Republic	80.43
41	Saudi Arabia	75.36
42	Malaysia	75.33
43	South Africa	71.81
44	Iraq	67.74
45	Thailand	65.09
46	Chile	64.77
47	Philippines	61.41
48	New Zealand	59.08
49	Qatar	55.79
50	Croatia	54.79
51	Slovenia	54.41
52	Slovakia	52.53
53	Bulgaria	51.12
54	Venezuela	47.35
55	Colombia	46.4
56	Pakistan	44.15
57	Latvia	42.05
58	Kuwait	36.93
59	Peru	34.59
60	Lebanon	34.03
61	Lithuania	32.47
62	Egypt	32.12
63	Sudan	31.5
64	Estonia	26.82
65	Singapore	25.52
66	Vietnam	23.09
67	Iran	21.92
68	Bangladesh	21.52
69	Morocco	21.22
70	Tunisia	20.81
71	Cuba	19.58
72	Ecuador	18.11
73	Monaco	18
74	Belarus	15.15
75	Cote d'Ivoire	14.48
76	Sri Lanka	13.59
77	Korea, North	12.5
78	Panama	10.89
79	Uruguay	10.74
80	El Salvador	10.69
81	Dominican Republic	10.33
82	Jamaica	10.2
83	Bahrain	10.03
84	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	10
85	Costa Rica	9.21
86	Nigeria	8.32
87	Afghanistan	8
88	Burma	7.74
89	Georgia	7.71
90	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7.67
91	Angola	7.62
92	Syria	7.3
93	Kenya	7.08
94	Oman	6.88
95	Jordan	6.83
96	Guatemala	6.5
97	Libya	6.07
98	Yemen	5.98
99	Bolivia	5.93
100	Ghana	5.42
101	Tanzania	5.35
102	Zimbabwe	5.32
103	Congo, Republic of the	5
104	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of	4.36
105	Mozambique	4.33
106	Cambodia	4.27
107	Moldova	4.13
108	Uzbekistan	3.99
109	Guinea	3.53
110	Paraguay	3.51
111	Kyrgyzstan	3.47
112	Armenia	3.45
113	Trinidad and Tobago	3.3
114	Nepal	3.29
115	Nicaragua	3.28
116	Liberia	3.2
117	Laos	3.18
118	Ethiopia	3.16
119	Cameroon	3.09
120	Iceland	3.07
121	Somalia	3
122	Azerbaijan	3
123	Honduras	2.9
124	Zambia	2.86
125	Mali	2.8
126	Algeria	2.7
127	Netherlands Antilles	2.68
128	Mauritius	2.48
129	Gabon	2.47
130	Madagascar	2.12
131	Niger	2.1
132	Togo	2
133	Senegal	1.77
134	Uganda	1.72
135	Burkina Faso	1.67
136	Papua New Guinea	1.65
137	Tajikistan	1.64
138	Sierra Leone	1.61
139	Mongolia	1.6
140	Chad	1.6
141	Albania	1.55
142	Haiti	1.51
143	Rwanda	1.4
144	Turkmenistan	1.4
145	Gaza Strip	1.3
146	West Bank	1.3
147	Burundi	1.2
148	Benin	1.2
149	Central African Republic	1.15
150	Seychelles	1.11
151	Malawi	1.04
152	Belize	0.95
153	Guinea-Bissau	0.94
154	Guyana	0.8
155	Namibia	0.8
156	Bhutan	0.71
157	Barbados	0.67
158	Montenegro	0.65
159	Gambia, The	0.63
160	Lesotho	0.62
161	Swaziland	0.55
162	Suriname	0.5
163	Aruba	0.48
164	Maldives	0.48
165	Djibouti	0.43
166	Botswana	0.42
167	Antigua and Barbuda	0.36
168	Grenada	0.35
169	Bahamas, The	0.34
170	Cape Verde	0.33
171	Sao Tome and Principe	0.32
172	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.31
173	Eritrea	0.31
174	Saint Lucia	0.26
175	Comoros	0.23
176	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.22
177	Dominica	0.21
178	Equatorial Guinea	0.19
179	Malta	0.19
180	Samoa	0.18
181	Solomon Islands	0.17
182	Bermuda	0.16
183	Cook Islands	0.14
184	Fiji	0.13
185	Marshall Islands	0.09
186	Vanuatu	0.08
187	Tonga	0.08
188	New Caledonia	0.08
189	Cayman Islands	0.07
190	Faroe Islands	0.06
191	Micronesia, Federated States of	0.06
192	British Virgin Islands	0.04
193	Nauru	0.03
194	Greenland	0.03
195	Kiribati	0.01
196	Montserrat	0.01
197	Anguilla	0.01
198	Wallis and Futuna	0
199	Niue	0
200	Macau	0
201	Liechtenstein	0
202	Palau	0
203	Brunei	0

Definition: This entry gives the total public and private debt owed to nonresidents repayable in foreign currency, goods, or services. These figures are calculated on an exchange rate basis, i.e., not in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2009