Debt outstanding and disbursed, Total to GDP (% of GDP) - Debt - Basic Inds. and Nat. Accts - African Development Indicators
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Total external debt is debt owed to nonresidents repayable in foreign currency, goods, or services. Total external debt is the sum of public, publicly guaranteed, and private nonguaranteed long-term debt, use of IMF credit, and short-term debt. Short-term debt includes all debt having an original maturity of one year or less and interest in arrears on long-term debt. Data expressed as a percentage of GDP at market prices. Source: World Bank, Global Development Finance.
| Debt outstanding and disbursed, Total to GDP (% of GDP) - Debt - Basic Inds. and Nat. Accts - African Development Indicators (2007) |
Rank | Country | Value |
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| 1 |  Liberia | 336.81 |
| 2 | Guinea-Bissau | 194.81 |
| 3 | Burundi | 148.61 |
| 4 | Seychelles | 143.37 |
| 5 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 123.45 |
| 6 | Sao Tome and Principe | 116.37 |
| 7 | Gambia | 113.92 |
| 8 | Togo | 78.74 |
| 9 | Guinea | 71.60 |
| 10 | Ivory Coast | 70.41 |
| 11 | Republic of the Congo | 67.44 |
| 12 | Mauritania | 64.47 |
| 13 | Eritrea | 63.66 |
| 14 | Mauritius | 62.66 |
| 15 | Comoros | 62.59 |
| 16 | Tunisia | 57.77 |
| 17 | Djibouti | 57.75 |
| 18 | Central African Republic | 56.85 |
| 19 | Gabon | 49.68 |
| 20 | Cape Verde | 41.38 |
| 21 | Sudan | 41.37 |
| 22 | Lesotho | 40.74 |
| 23 | Mozambique | 38.76 |
| 24 | Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria | 34.54 |
| 25 | Tanzania | 30.09 |
| 26 | Ghana | 29.88 |
| 27 | Mali | 29.47 |
| 28 | Kenya | 27.29 |
| 29 | Morocco | 26.96 |
| 30 | Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa | 26.19 |
| 31 | Chad | 25.65 |
| 32 | Zambia | 24.44 |
| 33 | Malawi | 24.26 |
| 34 | Egypt | 23.33 |
| 35 | Senegal | 22.91 |
| 36 | Niger | 22.89 |
| 37 | Sub-Saharan Africa | 22.63 |
| 38 | Madagascar | 22.61 |
| 39 | Burkina Faso | 21.59 |
| 40 | Angola | 21.49 |
| 41 | Africa | 20.98 |
| 42 | Sierra Leone | 20.93 |
| 43 | North Africa | 17.65 |
| 44 | Benin | 15.78 |
| 45 | South Africa | 15.29 |
| 46 | Cameroon | 15.28 |
| 47 | Rwanda | 14.53 |
| 48 | Swaziland | 13.59 |
| 49 | Ethiopia | 13.58 |
| 50 | Uganda | 13.55 |
| 51 | Nigeria | 5.38 |
| 52 | Algeria | 4.13 |
| 53 | Botswana | 3.26 |
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