Nepal External Debt

Indicator note: Total external debt stocks to gross national income. Total external debt is debt owed to nonresidents repayable in 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. Short-term debt includes all debt having an original maturity of one year or less and interest in arrears on long-term debt. GNI (formerly GNP) is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad.

Source organization: International Debt Statistics, World Bank (WB)

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Nepal recorded 23,27 percent of GNI in 2024, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2023, the external debt decreased by 0,76.

Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.

Across 9 observations from 2016 to 2024, the average was 20,70; the minimum was 16,54 in 2018 and the maximum was 24,04 in 2023.

Nepal ranks 20 out of 121 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is below the available average for South Asia.

It is also below the available average for the Lower middle income group.

External indebtedness and refinancing exposure.