The amount that a country owes to foreigners, including the debts of both the country's government and its private sector.
is the total private and public debt owed by a country to individuals, households, firms, and governments in other countries.
Debt owed by a country to non-resi- dents repayable in foreign currency, goods or services.
The debt owed by the private and government sectors of the economy to the rest of the world.
The sum of public, publicly guaranteed and private non-guaranteed long-term external debt obligations, short-term debt, and use of IMF credit. Data on debt come from the World Bank Debtor Reporting System, supplemented by World Bank estimates. US dollar figures for debt are converted at official exchange rates.
Debt denominated in foreign currency and owed to foreign creditors.
The amount, at any given time, of disbursed and outstanding, contractual liabilities of residents of a country to non-residents to repay principal, with or without interest, or to pay interest, with or without principal.
Debt owed to creditors outside the country. This includes debt owed to private commercial banks, debt owed to other governments or debt owed to the international financial institutions such as the IMF and World Bank.
Debt owed to nonresidents repayable in foreign currency, goods, or services. It is the sum of public, publicly guaranteed, and private nonguaranteed long-term debt, use of International Monetary Fund credit, and short-term debt. Short-term debt includes all debt having an original maturity of one year or less and interest in arrears on long-term debt.
External debt (or foreign debt) is that part of the total debt in a country that is owed to creditors outside the country. The debtors can be the government, corporations or private households. The debt includes money owed to private commercial banks, other governments, or international financial institutions such as the IMF and World Bank.