External debt — all countries

External debt — Upper-middle-income countries

External debt in upper-middle-income countries in 2024 — 6,082,755,045,473 US$. Since 1992, the indicator has risen by 773.4%.

2024 6.08T US$ −0.07% vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 6.28T US$2021
Period minimum 696B US$1992

Trend over time

1992–2024 · US$

External debt — Upper-middle-income countries, 1992–202402T4T6T8T1992199620002004200820122016202020241992: 696,471,803,061 US$1993: 772,074,607,789 US$1994: 878,053,527,501 US$1995: 1,028,766,113,584 US$1996: 1,090,340,335,499 US$1997: 1,152,519,925,513 US$1998: 1,253,510,604,274 US$1999: 1,287,854,844,041 US$2000: 1,266,952,319,970 US$2001: 1,293,965,611,464 US$2002: 1,311,902,261,655 US$2003: 1,407,499,144,479 US$2004: 1,495,502,134,985 US$2005: 1,500,957,702,604 US$2006: 1,634,836,001,208 US$2007: 1,917,286,480,062 US$2008: 2,039,490,203,626 US$2009: 2,203,855,586,168 US$2010: 2,768,499,049,186 US$2011: 3,267,309,831,925 US$2012: 3,653,648,756,694 US$2013: 4,221,074,322,088 US$2014: 4,706,636,857,452 US$2015: 4,238,506,388,776 US$2016: 4,402,617,132,716 US$2017: 4,943,018,690,149 US$2018: 5,332,044,421,945 US$2019: 5,558,282,094,380 US$2020: 5,823,127,537,652 US$2021: 6,279,084,297,352 US$2022: 6,112,709,513,960 US$2023: 6,086,826,215,428 US$2024: 6,082,755,045,473 US$
Change over the period: +5.39T (+773.37%) Average annual rate: 7.01 %
External debt — Upper-middle-income countries, by year Upper-middle-income countries All countries CSV XLSX
Year US$ Change Change, %
2024 6.08T −4.07B −0.07%
2023 6.09T −25.88B −0.42%
2022 6.11T −166B −2.65%
2021 6.28T +456B +7.83%
2020 5.82T +265B +4.76%
2019 5.56T +226B +4.24%
2018 5.33T +389B +7.87%
2017 4.94T +540B +12.27%
2016 4.4T +164B +3.87%
2015 4.24T −468B −9.95%
2014 4.71T +486B +11.5%
2013 4.22T +567B +15.53%
2012 3.65T +386B +11.82%
2011 3.27T +499B +18.02%
2010 2.77T +565B +25.62%
2009 2.2T +164B +8.06%
2008 2.04T +122B +6.37%
2007 1.92T +282B +17.28%
2006 1.63T +134B +8.92%
2005 1.5T +5.46B +0.36%
2004 1.5T +88B +6.25%
2003 1.41T +95.6B +7.29%
2002 1.31T +17.94B +1.39%
2001 1.29T +27.01B +2.13%
2000 1.27T −20.9B −1.62%
1999 1.29T +34.34B +2.74%
1998 1.25T +101B +8.76%
1997 1.15T +62.18B +5.7%
1996 1.09T +61.57B +5.99%
1995 1.03T +151B +17.16%
1994 878B +106B +13.73%
1993 772B +75.6B +10.86%
1992 696B

About the indicator

Total external debt: the liabilities of a country's residents to non-residents in foreign and in national currency, covering public, publicly guaranteed and private debt. It differs from government debt fundamentally — it includes the borrowing of banks and corporations that the government does not guarantee but that turns out to be its problem in a crisis all the same.

Important: Only middle- and low-income countries report to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System, so the table holds about 130 of them. Aggregates for country groups are not computed: the sum over those present is the debt of developing countries, not of the world.

Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.