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Short-term debt includes all debt having an original maturity of one year or less and interest in arrears on long-term debt. 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.

Rank	Country	Value
Short-term debt (% of total external debt) - Debt ratios & other items - External debt - Economic Policy & Debt - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Nigeria	66.45
2	St. Lucia	61.88
3	Belarus	56.58
4	Seychelles	55.93
5	China	49.49
6	Maldives	49.03
7	Bulgaria	48.61
8	Costa Rica	43.85
9	South Africa	42.77
10	Montenegro	40.40
11	Liberia	39.86
12	Thailand	37.36
13	Macedonia	36.95
14	Iran	36.13
15	East Asia & Pacific	35.56
16	Moldova	34.69
17	Malaysia	34.45
18	Venezuela	33.83
19	Sudan	33.76
20	Latvia	33.46
21	Poland	29.77
22	Romania	29.65
23	Argentina	29.25
24	Lower middle income	27.60
25	Paraguay	27.53
26	Dominica	27.39
27	Ghana	27.28
28	Azerbaijan	27.13
29	Somalia	26.91
30	Vanuatu	26.15
31	Lithuania	25.75
32	Burma	24.92
33	Sub-Saharan Africa	24.71
34	Albania	24.44
35	Algeria	23.81
36	Middle income	23.21
37	Chile	23.20
38	Low & middle income	22.71
39	Zambia	22.63
40	Tanzania	22.26
41	Ukraine	22.06
42	Jordan	21.69
43	Peru	21.53
44	Europe & Central Asia	20.87
45	Tunisia	20.83
46	Upper middle income	20.59
47	Uganda	20.38
48	Nicaragua	20.24
49	India	19.62
50	Dominican Republic	19.10
51	Mozambique	18.33
52	Turkey	18.29
53	Latin America & Caribbean	17.72
54	Indonesia	17.61
55	Vietnam	16.89
56	Angola	15.99
57	South Asia	15.71
58	Mauritania	15.35
59	Middle East & North Africa	15.18
60	Honduras	15.10
61	Brazil	14.34
62	Sri Lanka	13.77
63	Armenia	13.62
64	Russia	13.58
65	Guatemala	13.54
66	Serbia	13.33
67	Lebanon	13.31
68	Jamaica	12.67
69	Guinea-Bissau	12.49
70	Kenya	12.37
71	Madagascar	12.37
72	Low income	12.20
73	Colombia	12.12
74	Mexico	11.97
75	Guyana	11.75
76	Grenada	11.54
77	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10.97
78	Philippines	10.79
79	Sao Tome and Principe	10.72
80	Ivory Coast	10.70
81	Georgia	10.57
82	El Salvador	10.41
83	Kazakhstan	9.89
84	Ecuador	9.88
85	Botswana	9.83
86	Bangladesh	8.40
87	Turkmenistan	7.96
88	Morocco	7.83
89	Yemen	7.73
90	Egypt	7.72
91	Cambodia	7.66
92	Central African Republic	7.50
93	Uruguay	7.39
94	Senegal	6.89
95	Republic of the Congo	6.61
96	Burkina Faso	6.55
97	Guinea	6.21
98	Togo	5.87
99	Democratic Republic of the Congo	5.51
100	Uzbekistan	5.28
101	Fiji	5.11
102	Gabon	5.06
103	Gambia	4.50
104	Swaziland	4.07
105	Benin	3.81
106	Rwanda	3.33
107	Bolivia	3
108	Pakistan	2.83
109	Tajikistan	2.80
110	Sierra Leone	2.33
111	Comoros	2.07
112	Niger	1.98
113	Ethiopia	1.94
114	Solomon Islands	1.81
115	Nepal	1.55
116	Burundi	1.34
117	Kyrgyzstan	1.21
118	Afghanistan	0.77
119	Belize	0.64
120	Papua New Guinea	0.63
121	Eritrea	0.48
122	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	0.44
123	Cape Verde	0.23
124	Chad	0.22
125	St. Kitts and Nevis	0.22
126	Cameroon	0.18
127	Djibouti	0.11
128	Tonga	0.01
129	Panama	0
130	Lesotho	0
131	Haiti	0
132	Malawi	0
133	Mauritius	0
134	Laos	0
135	Bhutan	0
136	Mongolia	0
137	Samoa	0
138	Mali	0

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