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Grace period is the period from the date of signature of the loan or the issue of the financial instrument to the first repayment of principal. To obtain the average, the grace periods for all public and publicly guaranteed loans have been weighted by the amounts of the loans. Debt from official creditors includes loans from international organizations (multilateral loans) and loans from governments (bilateral loans). Loans from international organization include loans and credits from the World Bank, regional development banks, and other multilateral and intergovernmental agencies. Excluded are loans from funds administered by an international organization on behalf of a single donor government; these are classified as loans from governments. Government loans include loans from governments and their agencies (including central banks), loans from autonomous bodies, and direct loans from official export credit agencies.

Rank	Country	Value
Average grace period on new external debt commitments, official (years) - Terms - External debt - Economic Policy & Debt - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Latvia	16
2	Malawi	14.04
3	Mozambique	13.81
4	Romania	12.94
5	Swaziland	10.77
6	Angola	10.41
7	Sierra Leone	10.29
8	Zambia	10.27
9	Tanzania	10.27
10	Moldova	10.07
11	Laos	10
12	Afghanistan	9.96
13	Uganda	9.95
14	Mongolia	9.95
15	Dominica	9.92
16	Nigeria	9.87
17	St. Lucia	9.81
18	Ethiopia	9.69
19	Nepal	9.66
20	Grenada	9.62
21	Bangladesh	9.52
22	Nicaragua	9.48
23	Bhutan	9.42
24	Cameroon	9.26
25	Mali	9.26
26	Niger	9.24
27	Burkina Faso	9.04
28	Armenia	8.78
29	Georgia	8.74
30	Low income	8.68
31	Mexico	8.67
32	Benin	8.57
33	Cambodia	8.55
34	Albania	8.35
35	Rwanda	8.33
36	Sub-Saharan Africa	8.31
37	Kenya	8.28
38	Vietnam	8.24
39	Tajikistan	7.68
40	Yemen	7.65
41	Sri Lanka	7.56
42	Ghana	7.24
43	Europe & Central Asia	7.24
44	Indonesia	7.16
45	Colombia	7.14
46	Peru	7.06
47	South Asia	7.02
48	Madagascar	6.95
49	East Asia & Pacific	6.91
50	Cape Verde	6.83
51	Turkey	6.80
52	Senegal	6.72
53	Low & middle income	6.72
54	Papua New Guinea	6.66
55	Philippines	6.53
56	Chad	6.50
57	Mauritania	6.47
58	Upper middle income	6.42
59	Burundi	6.35
60	Middle income	6.31
61	Lesotho	6.28
62	Lower middle income	6.23
63	Pakistan	6.18
64	Gabon	6.12
65	Paraguay	6.10
66	India	6.06
67	Uzbekistan	6.04
68	Samoa	5.94
69	Kyrgyzstan	5.88
70	China	5.80
71	Belize	5.74
72	Jordan	5.74
73	Sudan	5.66
74	Egypt	5.59
75	Latin America & Caribbean	5.57
76	Tunisia	5.53
77	Mauritius	5.49
78	Venezuela	5.46
79	Honduras	5.44
80	Jamaica	5.39
81	Middle East & North Africa	5.39
82	Bolivia	5.33
83	Kazakhstan	5.29
84	Ukraine	5.17
85	Poland	5.08
86	Serbia	5.08
87	Vanuatu	5
88	Morocco	4.92
89	Azerbaijan	4.82
90	Republic of the Congo	4.75
91	Macedonia	4.65
92	Djibouti	4.54
93	Panama	4.48
94	Montenegro	4.47
95	Uruguay	4.44
96	Costa Rica	4.33
97	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.32
98	Argentina	4.22
99	Belarus	4.19
100	Guyana	4.10
101	Chile	4.04
102	Maldives	4.03
103	Guatemala	4.02
104	Bulgaria	4
105	El Salvador	3.77
106	Lebanon	3.60
107	Brazil	3.60
108	Dominican Republic	3.46
109	Haiti	3
110	Eritrea	3
111	Seychelles	2.58
112	Ecuador	2.17
113	Ivory Coast	0
114	Sao Tome and Principe	0
115	Russia	0
116	Comoros	0
117	Algeria	0
118	Togo	0
119	Thailand	0
120	Botswana	0
121	Turkmenistan	0
122	Fiji	0
123	Guinea	0
124	Gambia	0
125	Liberia	0
126	Malaysia	0
127	Guinea-Bissau	0
128	Iran	0
129	Burma	0
130	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	0
131	Lithuania	0
132	St. Kitts and Nevis	0
133	Solomon Islands	0
134	Somalia	0
135	Central African Republic	0
136	South Africa	0
137	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0
138	Tonga	0

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