The CIA World Factbook Edition 1991 Economy

Debt - external In 36 editions of 36.

Debt - external was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 1991 edition carries it in 213 entries, in its Economy section, under the heading “External debt”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 1991 edition
213
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Debt - external” (1997 to 2025), “External debt” (1990 to 1996), “Debt--external” (1999) and “Debt-external” (1998).

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Entries with Debt - external in each edition

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World

1 entry

World

  • $1.0 trillion for less developed countries (1990 est.)

Africa

56 entries

Algeria

$26.6 billion (December 1990)

Angola

$7.0 billion (1990)

Benin

$1.0 billion (December 1990 est.)

Botswana

$780 million (December 1990 est.)

Burkina now Burkina Faso

$962 million (December 1990 est.)

Burundi

$957 million (December 1990 est.)

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

$150 million (December 1990 est.)

Cameroon

$4.9 billion (December 1989 est.)

Central African Republic

$671 million (December 1989)

Chad

$530 million (December 1990 est.)

Comoros

$242 million (December 1990)

Zaire now Democratic Republic of the Congo

$7.9 billion (December 1990 est.)

Congo now Republic of the Congo

$4.5 billion (December 1988)

Ivory Coast now Cote d'Ivoire

$15.0 billion (1990 est.)

Djibouti

$355 million (December 1990)

Egypt

$52 billion (December 1990 est.)

Equatorial Guinea

$195 million (1989)

Swaziland now Eswatini

$290 million (1990)

Ethiopia

$2.6 billion (1988)

Gabon

$3.4 billion (December 1990 est.)

The Gambia

$336 million (December 1990 est.)

Ghana

$3.1 billion (1990 est.)

Guinea

$2.6 billion (1990 est.)

Guinea-Bissau

$462 million (December 1990 est.)

Kenya

$5.8 billion (December 1990 est.)

Lesotho

$370 million (December 1990 est.)

Liberia

$1.6 billion (December 1990 est.)

Libya

  • $3.5 billion, excluding military debt (December 1990 est.)

Madagascar

$3.6 billion (1989)

Malawi

$1.4 billion (December 1990 est.)

Mali

$2.2 billion (1989 est.)

Mauritania

$2.3 billion (December 1989)

Mauritius

$670 million (December 1989)

Mayotte

$NA

Morocco

$21 billion (1990)

Mozambique

$5.1 billion (1990 est.)

Namibia

about $27 million at independence; under a 1971 International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling, Namibia may not be liable for debt incurred during its colonial period

Niger

$1.8 billion (December 1990 est.)

Nigeria

$35 billion (December 1990 est.)

Reunion

NA

Rwanda

$689 million (December 1990 est.)

Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

$NA

Sao Tome and Principe

$110 million (1990 est.)

Senegal

$4.1 billion (1989)

Seychelles

$171 million (1990 est.)

Sierra Leone

$632 million (1990 est.)

Somalia

$1.9 billion (1989)

South Africa

$19.5 billion (July 1990)

Sudan

$12.3 billion (December 1990 est.)

Tanzania

$5.8 billion (December 1990 est.)

Togo

$1.3 billion (1990 est.)

Tunisia

$7.4 billion (December 1990 est.)

Uganda

$1.9 billion (1990 est.)

Western Sahara

$NA

Zambia

$7.2 billion (December 1990)

Zimbabwe

$2.96 billion (December 1989 est.)

Arctic Region

2 entries

Greenland

$480 million (1990 est.)

Iceland

$3 billion (1990)

Asia

13 entries

Afghanistan

$2.3 billion (March 1991 est.)

Bangladesh

$10.9 billion (FY90 est.)

Bhutan

$70.1 million (FY89 est.)

China

$51 billion (1990 est.)

India

$69.8 billion (1990 est.)

Japan

$NA

Korea, North now North Korea

$7 billion (1991)

Korea, South now South Korea

$31.7 billion (1990)

Maldives

$70 million (December 1989)

Mongolia

$16.8 billion (yearend 1990); 98.6% with USSR

Nepal

$2.5 billion (April 1990 est.)

Pakistan

$20.1 billion (1990 est.)

Sri Lanka

$5.6 billion (1989)

Central America and the Caribbean

31 entries

Anguilla

$NA

Antigua and Barbuda

$250 million (1990 est.)

Aruba

$81 million (1987)

The Bahamas

$1.2 billion (December 1990)

Barbados

$550 million (June 1990 est.)

Belize

$169 million (December 1990)

British Virgin Islands

$4.5 million (1985)

Cayman Islands

$15 million (1986)

Costa Rica

$4.5 billion (1989)

Cuba

$6.8 billion (convertible currency, July 1989)

Dominica

$73 million (1990 est.)

Dominican Republic

$4.2 billion (1990 est.)

El Salvador

$2.1 billion (December 1990 est.)

Grenada

$90 million (1990 est.)

Guadeloupe

$NA

Guatemala

$2.8 billion (December 1990 est.)

Haiti

$838 million (December 1990)

Honduras

$2.8 billion (1990)

Jamaica

$4.1 billion (1990 est.)

Martinique

$NA

Montserrat

$2.05 million (1987)

Netherlands Antilles

$701.2 million (December 1987)

Nicaragua

$9 billion (December 1990)

Panama

$5 billion (December 1990 est.)

Puerto Rico

$NA

Saint Kitts and Nevis

$26.4 million (1988)

Saint Lucia

$54.5 million (1989)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

$42.2 million (FY89)

Trinidad and Tobago

$2.5 billion (1989)

Turks and Caicos Islands

$NA

Virgin Islands

$NA

Europe

34 entries

Albania

$NA

Andorra

$NA

Austria

$11.8 billion (1990 est.)

Belgium

$28.8 billion (1990 est.)

Bulgaria

$10 billion (1990)

Czechoslovakia

  • $7.6 billion, hard currency indebtedness (September 1990)

Denmark

$45 billion (1990)

Faroe Islands

$1.3 billion (1989)

Finland

$5.3 billion (1989)

France

$59.3 billion (December 1987)

Gibraltar

$318 million (1987)

Greece

$18.7 billion (1989)

Guernsey

$NA

Hungary

$20.7 billion (1989)

Ireland

$16.0 billion (1990)

Man, Isle of now Isle of Man

$NA

Italy

NA

Jersey

$NA

Liechtenstein

$NA

Luxembourg

$131.6 million (1989 est.)

Malta

  • $90 million, medium and long-term (December 1987)

Monaco

$NA

Netherlands

none

Norway

$15 billion (December 1990)

Poland

$48.5 billion (January 1991)

Portugal

$18.4 billion (1990)

Romania

$400 million (mid-1990)

San Marino

$NA

Soviet Union

$55 billion (1990)

Spain

$37 billion (1990 est.)

Sweden

$14.1 billion (December 1990)

Switzerland

$NA

United Kingdom

$10.5 billion (1990)

Yugoslavia

  • $18.0 billion, medium and long term (December 1990)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

$1.1 billion (December 1989 est.)

Cyprus

$2.2 billion (1990)

Gaza Strip

$NA

Iran

  • $4-5 billion (1989)

Iraq

$40 billion (1989 est.), excluding debt to Arab Gulf states

Israel

  • $24.5 billion, of which government debt is $18 billion (December 1990)

Jordan

$8 billion (December 1990 est.)

Kuwait

$7.2 billion (December 1989 est.)

Lebanon

$900 million (1990 est.)

Oman

$3.1 billion (December 1989 est.)

Qatar

$1.1 billion (December 1989 est.)

Saudi Arabia

$18.9 billion (December 1989 est.)

Syria

$5.2 billion in hard currency (1990 est.)

Turkey now Turkiye

$42.8 billion (June 1990)

United Arab Emirates

$11.0 billion (December 1989 est.)

West Bank

$NA

Yemen

$5.75 billion (December 1989 est.) North--growth rate 2% in manufacturing (1988); South--growth rate NA% in manufacturing

North America

5 entries

Bermuda

NA

Canada

$247 billion (1987)

Mexico

$96.0 billion (1990)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

$NA

United States

$581 billion (December 1989)

Oceania

25 entries

American Samoa

$NA

Australia

$123.7 billion (September 1990)

Cook Islands

$NA

Fiji

$428 million (December 1990 est.)

French Polynesia

$NA

Guam

$NA

Kiribati

$2.0 million (December 1989 est.)

Marshall Islands

$NA

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

$NA

Nauru

$33.3 million

New Caledonia

$NA

New Zealand

$17.4 billion (1989)

Niue

$NA

Norfolk Island

NA

Northern Mariana Islands

none

Pacific Islands, Trust Territory of the now Palau

$NA

Papua New Guinea

$2.76 billion (December 1990)

Pitcairn Islands

$NA

Western Samoa now Samoa

$83 million (December 1990 est.)

Solomon Islands

$128 million (1988 est.)

Tokelau

none

Tonga

$42.0 million (FY89)

Tuvalu

$NA

Vanuatu

$30 million (1990 est.)

Wallis and Futuna

$NA

South America

14 entries

Argentina

$60 billion (December 1990)

Bolivia

$3.7 billion (December 1990)

Brazil

$122 billion (December 1990)

Chile

$18.4 billion (February 1991)

Colombia

$16.7 billion (1990)

Ecuador

$11.8 billion (December 1990)

Falkland Islands now Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

$NA

French Guiana

$1.2 billion (1988)

Guyana

  • $1.7 billion, including arrears (December 1990 est.)

Paraguay

$1.7 billion (1989 est.)

Peru

$20.0 billion (December 1990)

Suriname

$138 million (1990 est.)

Uruguay

$4.2 billion (1990 est.)

Venezuela

$33.2 billion (1990)

Southeast Asia

15 entries

Brunei

none

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

$5.5 billion (December 1990 est.)

Cambodia

$600 million (1989)

Christmas Island

$NA

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

$NA

Hong Kong

$9.5 billion (December 1990 est.)

Indonesia

$58.5 billion (1990 est.)

Laos

$1.1 billion (1990 est.)

Macau

$91 million (1985)

Malaysia

$20.0 billion (1990)

Philippines

$28.4 billion (1990)

Singapore

$3.9 billion (1990)

Taiwan

$1.1 billion (December 1990 est.)

Thailand

$26.9 billion (end 1990 est.)

Vietnam

$16.8 billion (1990 est.)

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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1991, “Debt - external”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/debt-external/1991.

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