economic2023

Debt service as a share of exports and primary income

Name: Debt service as a share of exports and primary income
Creator: United Nations SDG Global Database
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, daily-10, un-sdg, external-debt

Compare debt service as a share of exports and primary income across 112 ISO-mapped countries or territories using the fixed 2023 UN SDG Global Database slice.

Source: United Nations SDG Global Database•112 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

9.1%

Median: 7.7%

Countries Covered

112

with available data

Highest

Pakistan

37.0%

Lowest

Islamic Republic of Iran

0.3%

Top 5 Countries

1Pakistan37.0%

2Argentina34.8%

3Angola29.6%

4Kenya27.4%

5Egypt27.1%

By Region

Key Findings

•112 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2023 observation in the selected slice.
•Pakistan has the highest published value (37.01061907 %).
•Islamic Republic of Iran has the lowest published value (0.301103191 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.3%)High (37.0%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 9.1%)

About This Statistic

Debt service expressed as a proportion of exports of goods, services and primary income.

MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and dimension slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicates and other dimensions are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.

Methodology

Debt service expressed as a proportion of exports of goods, services and primary income.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Pakistan	37.0%
2	Argentina	34.8%
3	Angola	29.6%
4	Kenya	27.4%
5	Egypt	27.1%
6	Jamaica	21.7%
7	Senegal	19.4%
8	Guinea-Bissau	18.8%
9	Benin	18.5%
10	El Salvador	18.4%
11	Colombia	18.0%
12	Cote d'Ivoire	17.8%
13	Dominica	17.2%
14	Cameroon	17.2%
15	Somalia	16.9%
16	Tunisia	16.9%
17	Dominican Republic	16.2%
18	Bhutan	16.0%
19	Ethiopia	14.3%
20	Niger	14.1%
21	Cape Verde	13.5%
22	United Republic of Tanzania	13.4%
23	Bolivia	12.6%
24	Mongolia	12.5%
25	Comoros	11.6%
26	Ecuador	11.4%
27	Sierra Leone	11.2%
28	Tonga	11.0%
29	Jordan	11.0%
30	Burundi	10.9%
31	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	10.7%
32	Uganda	10.5%
33	Sri Lanka	10.3%
34	Rwanda	10.1%
35	Samoa	9.8%
36	Malawi	9.7%
37	Central African Republic	9.7%
38	Montenegro	9.7%
39	Mauritius	9.6%
40	Honduras	9.6%
41	Nepal	9.4%
42	Belarus	9.1%
43	Mauritania	9.1%
44	Togo	8.9%
45	The Republic of North Macedonia	8.8%
46	Indonesia	8.8%
47	Moldova, Republic of	8.7%
48	Kyrgyzstan	8.5%
49	Maldives	8.4%
50	Ukraine	8.4%
51	South Africa	8.1%
52	Bangladesh	8.0%
53	Republic of the Congo	7.9%
54	Chad	7.9%
55	Costa Rica	7.8%
56	Liberia	7.8%
57	Brazil	7.7%
58	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7.6%
59	Nigeria	7.6%
60	Republic of The Gambia	7.5%
61	Nicaragua	7.1%
62	Uzbekistan	7.0%
63	Belize	7.0%
64	Lao People's Democratic Republic	6.8%
65	Myanmar	6.8%
66	Paraguay	6.7%
67	Türkiye	6.6%
68	Suriname	6.5%
69	Mozambique	6.2%
70	Grenada	6.2%
71	Albania	6.0%
72	Peru	6.0%
73	Morocco	5.9%
74	Mali	5.6%
75	Haiti	5.6%
76	Madagascar	5.6%
77	Lesotho	5.6%
78	Armenia	5.5%
79	Philippines	5.2%
80	Guatemala	5.1%
81	Tajikistan	5.1%
82	Sao Tome and Principe	5.0%
83	Serbia	4.9%
84	Vanuatu	4.8%
85	Fiji	4.7%
86	Georgia	4.5%
87	Saint Lucia	4.3%
88	Eswatini	4.3%
89	Burkina Faso	4.1%
90	Azerbaijan	4.1%
91	Mexico	4.1%
92	Iraq	3.9%
93	Papua New Guinea	3.8%
94	Zambia	3.7%
95	Kazakhstan	3.5%
96	Botswana	3.4%
97	India	2.8%
98	Ghana	2.7%
99	Guinea	2.2%
100	Solomon Islands	2.2%
101	Zimbabwe	2.1%
102	Timor-Leste	2.0%
103	Lebanon	1.9%
104	Cambodia	1.8%
105	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.6%
106	People's Republic of China	1.5%
107	Thailand	1.5%
108	Vietnam	1.2%
109	Djibouti	0.8%
110	Guyana	0.8%
111	Algeria	0.4%
112	Islamic Republic of Iran	0.3%

Showing 112 of 112 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2023).

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