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Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2015

2015, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2015 covers 121 countries. China is highest, at 61.6481; 6 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 10.5227. Against 2014, 116 values changed (43 up, 73 down), 2 countries joined.

Short-Term Share of External Debt · Data for 2015

HighestChina

61.6481

Lowest6 countries share it

0.0000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2015, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 121 countries · select a heading to sort

Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2015: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
ChinaCHNEastern Asia61.6481
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia51.6611
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa46.1233
JordanJORWestern Asia40.2628
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa39.0260
DominicaDMACaribbean35.9036
BeninBENWestern Africa35.7424
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia35.1282
ArgentinaARGSouth America33.5438
IranIRNSouthern Asia31.2801
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa30.7489
BelarusBLREastern Europe29.9924
KosovoXKXSouthern Europe29.6635
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa28.9810
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa28.6149
FijiFJIMelanesia28.4020
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia26.1153
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe24.2055
SudanSDNNorthern Africa23.8005
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa23.3170
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa21.7451
BulgariaBGREastern Europe21.7263
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe21.2299
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe19.8843
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa19.6460

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. China61.6481
  2. Timor-Leste51.6611
  3. Mauritius46.1233
  4. Jordan40.2628
  5. Algeria39.0260

Lowest

  1. Tongashared0.0000
  2. Turkmenistanshared0.0000
  3. Liberiashared0.0000
  4. Côte d’Ivoireshared0.0000
  5. Bhutanshared0.0000

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 10.5227. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 116values changed, of 119 in both
  • 43 · 73rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Iraq+ Suriname

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method
  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2015.

  • 116 distinct values among 121

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 6 countries share 0.0000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 121 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2015). Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/short-term-external-debt/2015

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07Questions

Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest short-term external debt in Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2015?

China, at 61.6481, of the 121 countries in the file.

What year does Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2015 cover?

121.

Where can I download Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2015?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2015 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Short-Term Share of External Debt, 2024.

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