CPIA debt policy rating
Compare cpia debt policy rating across 77 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2025 official-source dataset.
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Key Insights
- •Coverage: 77 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2025.
- •Published range: 1 to 4.5 rating (1–6).
- •Discovery motivation: The worldwide X mirror surfaced Treasury and government spending themes, motivating comparison of the quality of countries' debt-policy frameworks.
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 3.1rating (1–6))
About This Statistic
The Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) measures the extent to which a country’s policy and institutional framework supports sustainable growth and poverty reduction, and consequently the effective use of development assistance. The outcome of the exercise yields both an overall score and scores for sixteen criteria that compose the CPIA. These criteria include: A. Economic Management (1. Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies; 2. Fiscal Policy; 3. Debt Policy and Management), B. Structural Policies (4. Trade; 5. Financial Sector; 6. Business Regulatory Environment), C. Policies for Social Inclusion/Equity (7. Gender equality; 8. Equity of public resource use; 9. Building human resources; 10. Social protection and labor; 11. Policies and institutions for environmental sustainability), D. Public Sector Management and Institutions (12. Property rights and rule-based governance; 13. Quality of budgetary and financial management; 14. Efficiency of revenue mobilization; 15. Quality of public administration; 16. Transparency, accountability, and corruption in the public sector).
The Debt Policy and Management criterion assesses whether the country’s debt management strategy is conducive to ensure medium-term debt sustainability and minimize budgetary risks. The criterion covers: (a) the extent to which external and domestic debt is contracted with a view to achieving/maintaining debt sustainability; and (b) the effectiveness of debt management functions (including the degree of coordination between debt management and other macroeconomic policies, the effectiveness of the debt management unit, and the existence of a debt management strategy and of a legal framework for borrowing).
MapTheory retains one fixed reference year and unit. Only finite values mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are included; aggregates, missing values and non-ISO geographies are excluded. No value is estimated, imputed or carried across years.
Methodology
The Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) measures the extent to which a country’s policy and institutional framework supports sustainable growth and poverty reduction, and consequently the effective use of development assistance. The outcome of the exercise yields both an overall score and scores for sixteen criteria that compose the CPIA. These criteria include: A. Economic Management (1. Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies; 2. Fiscal Policy; 3. Debt Policy and Management), B. Structural Policies (4. Trade; 5. Financial Sector; 6. Business Regulatory Environment), C. Policies for Social Inclusion/Equity (7. Gender equality; 8. Equity of public resource use; 9. Building human resources; 10. Social protection and labor; 11. Policies and institutions for environmental sustainability), D. Public Sector Management and Institutions (12. Property rights and rule-based governance; 13. Quality of budgetary and financial management; 14. Efficiency of revenue mobilization; 15. Quality of public administration; 16. Transparency, accountability, and corruption in the public sector). The Debt Policy and Management criterion assesses whether the country’s debt management strategy is conducive to ensure medium-term debt sustainability and minimize budgetary risks. The criterion covers: (a) the extent to which external and domestic debt is contracted with a view to achieving/maintaining debt sustainability; and (b) the effectiveness of debt management functions (including the degree of coordination between debt management and other macroeconomic policies, the effectiveness of the debt management unit, and the existence of a debt management strategy and of a legal framework for borrowing).
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cambodia | 4.5rating (1–6) |
| 2 | Guyana | 4.5rating (1–6) |
| 3 | Cote d'Ivoire | 4.5rating (1–6) |
| 4 | Kyrgyzstan | 4.5rating (1–6) |
| 5 | Madagascar | 4.5rating (1–6) |
| 6 | Rwanda | 4.5rating (1–6) |
| 7 | Burkina Faso | 4.5rating (1–6) |
| 8 | Uzbekistan | 4.5rating (1–6) |
| 9 | Benin | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 10 | Fiji | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 11 | Honduras | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 12 | Mali | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 13 | Nepal | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 14 | Nigeria | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 15 | Togo | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 16 | Uganda | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 17 | United Republic of Tanzania | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 18 | Samoa | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 19 | Bangladesh | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 20 | Bhutan | 4.0rating (1–6) |
| 21 | Burundi | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 22 | Cameroon | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 23 | Chad | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 24 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 25 | Grenada | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 26 | Guinea | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 27 | Lesotho | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 28 | Mauritania | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 29 | Nicaragua | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 30 | Pakistan | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 31 | Timor-Leste | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 32 | Suriname | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 33 | Eswatini | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 34 | Solomon Islands | 3.5rating (1–6) |
| 35 | Myanmar | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 36 | Cape Verde | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 37 | Central African Republic | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 38 | Sri Lanka | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 39 | Dominica | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 40 | Republic of The Gambia | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 41 | Ghana | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 42 | Kenya | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 43 | Liberia | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 44 | Vanuatu | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 45 | Micronesia, Federated States of | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 46 | Papua New Guinea | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 47 | Saint Lucia | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 48 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 49 | Sierra Leone | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 50 | Tajikistan | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 51 | Tonga | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 52 | Zambia | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 53 | Belize | 3.0rating (1–6) |
| 54 | Comoros | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 55 | Ethiopia | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 56 | Kiribati | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 57 | Niger | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 58 | Marshall Islands | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 59 | Guinea-Bissau | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 60 | Senegal | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 61 | Somalia | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 62 | Zimbabwe | 2.5rating (1–6) |
| 63 | Republic of the Congo | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 64 | Djibouti | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 65 | Haiti | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 66 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 67 | Malawi | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 68 | Maldives | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 69 | Mozambique | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 70 | Sao Tome and Principe | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 71 | Tuvalu | 2.0rating (1–6) |
| 72 | Eritrea | 1.5rating (1–6) |
| 73 | South Sudan | 1.5rating (1–6) |
| 74 | Yemen | 1.5rating (1–6) |
| 75 | Afghanistan | 1.5rating (1–6) |
| 76 | Sudan | 1.0rating (1–6) |
| 77 | Syrian Arab Republic | 1.0rating (1–6) |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Development Indicators (2025).
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