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Foreign debt consists of the outstanding stock or recognized, direct liabilities of the government to the rest of the world, generated in the past and scheduled to be extinguished by government operations in the future or to continue as perpetual debt. Data are in current U.S. dollars. Source: World Bank country economists.

Rank	Country	Value
External debt, end year (current US$) - GFS - Basic Inds. and Nat. Accts - African Development Indicators (Most Recent Data)
1	Senegal (2007)	1,296,134,875,000
2	Africa (2008)	89,769,283,955
3	Sub-Saharan Africa (2008)	46,429,944,162
4	North Africa (2008)	43,339,339,792
5	Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria (2008)	35,497,460,066
6	Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa (2008)	35,497,460,066
7	Egypt (2008)	33,892,800,000
8	Nigeria (2001)	31,262,173,184
9	Sudan (2002)	27,399,999,488
10	Ivory Coast (2005)	11,133,926,449
11	South Africa (2008)	10,932,484,096
12	Tunisia (2006)	10,408,819,000
13	Morocco (2008)	8,479,609,792
14	Republic of the Congo (2008)	6,107,857,218
15	Tanzania (2008)	6,094,000,000
16	Kenya (2008)	5,495,470,000
17	Zambia (2002)	4,336,710,144
18	Ethiopia (2008)	3,281,035,493
19	Malawi (2008)	2,970,152,960
20	Guinea (2008)	2,534,000,000
21	Zimbabwe (2000)	2,132,300,032
22	Gabon (2008)	2,093,726,793
23	Burundi (2004)	2,004,488,832
24	Uganda (2008)	1,881,177,038
25	Rwanda (2007)	1,428,092,544
26	Mauritania (1983)	1,295,998,976
27	Togo (1993)	1,222,899,968
28	Cameroon (2008)	1,092,163,224
29	Central African Republic (2008)	1,073,032,272
30	Algeria (2008)	966,930,000
31	Madagascar (1996)	866,920,064
32	Mauritius (2008)	742,491,852
33	Eritrea (2007)	716,879,103
34	Lesotho (2008)	652,664,000
35	Seychelles (2002)	560,494,592
36	Swaziland (2008)	479,402,291
37	Namibia (2008)	394,471,037
38	Botswana (2008)	346,926,000
39	Comoros (2008)	256,780,733
40	Sierra Leone (2007)	108,241,719
41	Mozambique (2008)	2,109,155
42	Chad (2007)	1.86
43	Ghana (2008)	0
44	Equatorial Guinea (2003)	0
45	Angola (1997)	0
46	Mali (2008)	0

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