Average grant element on new external debt commitments (%) - Terms - External debt - Economic Policy & Debt - World Development Indicators

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The grant element of a loan is the grant equivalent expressed as a percentage of the amount committed. It is used as a measure of the overall cost of borrowing. To obtain the average, the grant elements for all public and publicly guaranteed loans have been weighted by the amounts of the loans. The grant equivalent of a loan is its commitment (present) value, less the discounted present value of its contractual debt service; conventionally, future service payments are discounted at 10 percent. Commitments cover the total amount of loans for which contracts were signed in the year specified. Public debt is an external obligation of a public debtor, including the national government, a political subdivision (or an agency of either), and autonomous public bodies. Publicly guaranteed debt is an external obligation of a private debtor that is guaranteed for repayment by a public entity. Data for private nonguaranteed debt are not available.

Rank	Country	Value
Average grant element on new external debt commitments (%) - Terms - External debt - Economic Policy & Debt - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Tanzania	81.40
2	Mozambique	80.56
3	Uganda	80.55
4	Afghanistan	80.52
5	Moldova	80.38
6	Nigeria	80.36
7	Mongolia	80.24
8	Bhutan	79.61
9	Malawi	79.08
10	Ethiopia	78.67
11	Dominica	78.32
12	St. Lucia	78.17
13	Cameroon	78.07
14	Grenada	77.91
15	Zambia	76.78
16	Nepal	76.58
17	Sierra Leone	75.81
18	Bangladesh	75.36
19	Mali	73.86
20	Burkina Faso	73.78
21	Chad	73.65
22	Niger	72.83
23	Tajikistan	72.31
24	Armenia	71.85
25	Laos	70.92
26	Cambodia	69.40
27	Benin	68.59
28	Kenya	67.08
29	Low income	66.08
30	Yemen	64.83
31	Samoa	64.35
32	Vietnam	63.52
33	India	63.50
34	Swaziland	63.17
35	Madagascar	63.15
36	Nicaragua	62.66
37	Burundi	61.45
38	Haiti	61.27
39	South Asia	61.23
40	Papua New Guinea	60.30
41	Guyana	60.25
42	Rwanda	59.21
43	Lesotho	59.04
44	Kyrgyzstan	58.33
45	Cape Verde	57.18
46	Uzbekistan	55.01
47	Pakistan	54.24
48	Vanuatu	53.10
49	Mauritania	53.09
50	Djibouti	52.97
51	Senegal	52.22
52	Dominican Republic	51.83
53	Sudan	50.98
54	Honduras	50.68
55	Tunisia	50.48
56	Sri Lanka	50.10
57	Ghana	49.18
58	Sub-Saharan Africa	49.11
59	Gabon	48.30
60	Republic of the Congo	46.84
61	Ukraine	46.29
62	Paraguay	45.60
63	Jordan	44.58
64	Peru	44.19
65	Lower middle income	42.53
66	Philippines	42.44
67	Panama	42.32
68	Egypt	41.90
69	Belize	41.59
70	Thailand	41.38
71	Albania	41.23
72	Kazakhstan	39.78
73	Uruguay	39.54
74	Bolivia	39.22
75	East Asia & Pacific	38.68
76	Azerbaijan	38.35
77	Ecuador	37.56
78	Colombia	37.45
79	China	37.25
80	Indonesia	36.94
81	Maldives	36.39
82	Latvia	36.13
83	Mauritius	35.04
84	Romania	34.90
85	Costa Rica	34.32
86	Guatemala	34.16
87	Argentina	34.09
88	Bulgaria	33.90
89	Morocco	33.61
90	Bosnia and Herzegovina	33.13
91	Low & middle income	32.62
92	Georgia	31.44
93	Middle East & North Africa	31.27
94	Poland	31.23
95	Middle income	29.50
96	Brazil	28.80
97	Latin America & Caribbean	28.01
98	Turkey	27.42
99	Serbia	26.57
100	Macedonia	26.39
101	Jamaica	25.71
102	Mexico	24.02
103	Upper middle income	23.54
104	Montenegro	23.36
105	Europe & Central Asia	23.15
106	Belarus	19.97
107	Lithuania	19.68
108	Angola	17.48
109	El Salvador	17.29
110	Chile	15.40
111	Iran	14.49
112	Eritrea	14.30
113	Russia	12.36
114	Malaysia	11.88
115	South Africa	10.39
116	Venezuela	9.66
117	Seychelles	7.72
118	Lebanon	7.17
119	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	4.79
120	Togo	0
121	Botswana	0
122	Fiji	0
123	Turkmenistan	0
124	Guinea	0
125	Gambia	0
126	Guinea-Bissau	0
127	Burma	0
128	Solomon Islands	0
129	Somalia	0
130	Ivory Coast	0
131	Comoros	0
132	St. Kitts and Nevis	0
133	Sao Tome and Principe	0
134	Liberia	0
135	Central African Republic	0
136	Algeria	0
137	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0
138	Tonga	0

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