The CIA World Factbook Edition 1992 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 1992 edition carries it in 232 entries, in its Economy section, under the heading “External debt”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 1992 edition
232
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 (1991 est.)

Africa

56 entries

Algeria

$26.4 billion

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

$1.0 billion (1990 est.)

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

$150 million (December 1990 est.)

Cameroon

$4.9 billion (December 1989 est.)

Central African Republic

$700 million (1990 est.)

Chad

$530 million (December 1990 est.)

Comoros

$196 million (1991 est.)

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

$38 billion (December 1991 est.)

Equatorial Guinea

$213 million (1990)

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

$6.0 billion (December 1991 est.)

Lesotho

$370 million (December 1990 est.)

Liberia

$1.6 billion (December 1990 est.)

Libya

  • $3.5 billion, excluding military debt (1991 est.)

Madagascar

$4.4 billion (1991)

Malawi

$1.8 billion (December 1991 est.)

Mali

$2.2 billion (1989 est.)

Mauritania

$1.9 billion (1990)

Mauritius

$869 million (1991 est.)

Mayotte

$NA

Morocco

$20 billion (1991)

Mozambique

$4.9 billion (1991 est.)

Namibia

about $250 million; 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

$32 billion (December 1991 est.)

Reunion

$NA

Rwanda

$911 million (1990 est.)

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

$NA

Sao Tome and Principe

$147 million (1990 est.)

Senegal

$2.9 billion (1990)

Seychelles

$189 million (1991 est.)

Sierra Leone

$572 million (1990)

Somalia

$1.9 billion (1989)

South Africa

$19.0 billion (December 1991)

Sudan

$14.6 billion (June 1991 est.)

Tanzania

$5.2 billion (December 1991 est.)

Togo

$1.3 billion (1990 est.)

Tunisia

$8.6 billion (1991)

Uganda

$1.9 billion (1991 est.)

Western Sahara

$NA

Zambia

$8 billion (December 1991)

Zimbabwe

$2.96 billion (December 1989 est.)

Arctic Region

2 entries

Greenland

$480 million (1990 est.)

Iceland

$3 billion (1990)

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

$2.3 billion (March 1991 est.)

Armenia

$650 million (December 1991 est.)

Azerbaijan

$1.3 billion (1991 est.)

Bangladesh

$11.1 billion (FY91 est.)

Bhutan

$80 million (FY91 est.)

China

$51 billion (1990 est.)

Georgia

$650 million (1991 est.)

India

$72.0 billion (1991 est.)

Japan

$NA

Kazakhstan

$2.6 billion (1991 est.)

Korea, North now North Korea

$7 billion (1991)

Korea, South now South Korea

$38.2 billion (1991)

Kyrgyzstan

$650 million (1991)

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.)

Russia

$40 billion (end of 1991 est.)

Sri Lanka

$5.8 billion (1990)

Tajikistan

$650 million (end of 1991 est.)

Turkmenistan

$650 million (end of 1991 est.)

Uzbekistan

$2 billion (end of 1991 est.)

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

$539.9 million (1990)

Belize

$142 million (December 1991)

British Virgin Islands

$4.5 million (1985)

Cayman Islands

$15 million (1986)

Costa Rica

$4.5 billion (1990)

Cuba

$6.8 billion (convertible currency, July 1989)

Dominica

$73 million (1990 est.)

Dominican Republic

$4.7 billion (1991 est.)

El Salvador

$2.0 billion (December 1990 est.)

Grenada

$90 million (1990 est.)

Guadeloupe

$NA

Guatemala

$2.6 billion (December 1990 est.)

Haiti

$838 million (December 1990)

Honduras

$2.8 billion (1990)

Jamaica

$3.8 billion (1991 est.)

Martinique

$NA

Montserrat

$2.05 million (1987)

Netherlands Antilles

$701.2 million (December 1987)

Nicaragua

$10 billion (December 1991)

Panama

$5.4 billion (December 1991 est.)

Puerto Rico

$NA

Saint Kitts and Nevis

$26.4 million (1988)

Saint Lucia

$54.5 million (1989)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

$50.9 million (1989)

Trinidad and Tobago

$2.5 billion (1990)

Turks and Caicos Islands

$NA

Virgin Islands

$NA

Europe

44 entries

Albania

$500 million (1991 est.)

Andorra

$NA

Austria

$11.8 billion (1990 est.)

Belarus

$2.6 billion (end of 1991)

Belgium

$28.8 billion (1990 est.)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

NA

Bulgaria

$11.2 billion (1991)

Croatia

$2.6 billion (may assume some part of foreign debt of former Yugoslavia)

Czechoslovakia

  • $9.1 billion, hard currency indebtedness (December 1991)

Denmark

$45 billion (1991)

Estonia

$650 million (end of 1991)

Faroe Islands

$1.3 billion (1989)

Finland

$5.3 billion (1989)

France

$59.3 billion (December 1987)

Germany

  • West - $500 million (June 1988); East - $20.6 billion (1989)

Gibraltar

$318 million (1987)

Greece

$25.5 billion (1990)

Guernsey

$NA

Hungary

$22.7 billion (January 1991)

Ireland

$14.8 billion (1990)

Man, Isle of now Isle of Man

$NA

Italy

NA

Jersey

$NA

Latvia

$650 million (1991 est.)

Liechtenstein

$NA

Lithuania

$650 million (1991 est.)

Luxembourg

$131.6 million (1989 est.)

Malta

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

Moldova

$650 million (1991 est.)

Monaco

$NA

Netherlands

none

Macedonia now North Macedonia

$NA

Norway

$10.2 billion (1991)

Poland

$48.5 billion (January 1992); note - Poland's Western government creditors promised in 1991 to forgive 30% of Warsaw's official debt - currently $33 billion - immediately and to forgive another 20% by 1994, if Poland adheres to its IMF program

Portugal

$15.0 billion (1991 est.)

Romania

$2 billion (1991)

San Marino

$NA

Serbia and Montenegro

$4.2 billion (may assume some part of foreign debt of former Yugoslavia)

Slovenia

$2.5 billion

Spain

$45 billion (1991 est.)

Sweden

$10.7 billion (November 1991)

Switzerland

$NA

Ukraine

$10.4 billion (end of 1991 est.)

United Kingdom

$10.5 billion (1990)

Middle East

17 entries

Bahrain

$1.1 billion (December 1989 est.)

Cyprus

$2.8 billion (1990)

Gaza Strip

$NA

Iran

$10 billion (1990 est.)

Iraq

$45 billion (1989 est.), excluding debt of about $35 billion owed to Arab Gulf states

Israel

  • $24 billion, of which government debt is $17 billion (December 1991 est.)

Jordan

$9 billion (December 1991 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

$49.0 billion (1990)

United Arab Emirates

$11.0 billion (December 1989 est.)

West Bank

$NA

Yemen

$5.75 billion (December 1989 est.)

North America

5 entries

Bermuda

NA

Canada

$247 billion (1987)

Mexico

$98.4 billion (1991)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

$NA

United States

NA

Oceania

25 entries

American Samoa

$NA

Australia

$130.4 billion (June 1991)

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

  • about $100 million (1989)

Papua New Guinea

$2.2 billion (April 1991)

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

$61 billion (January 1992)

Bolivia

$3.3 billion (December 1991)

Brazil

$118 billion (December 1991)

Chile

$16.2 billion (October 1991)

Colombia

$17.0 billion (1991)

Ecuador

$12.4 billion (December 1991)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

$NA

French Guiana

$1.2 billion (1988)

Guyana

  • $2.0 billion, including arrears (1990)

Paraguay

$1.7 billion (1991 est.)

Peru

$19.4 billion (December 1991 est.)

Suriname

$138 million (1990 est.)

Uruguay

$4.2 billion (1991 est.)

Venezuela

$30.9 billion (1991)

Southeast Asia

15 entries

Brunei

none

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

$4.2 billion (1991)

Cambodia

$600 million (1989)

Christmas Island

$NA

Cocos Islands now 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

$21.3 billion (1991 est.)

Philippines

$28.9 billion (1991)

Singapore

$3.8 billion (1991 est.)

Taiwan

$1.1 billion (December 1990 est.)

Thailand

$25.1 billion (1990)

Vietnam

$16.8 billion (1990 est.)

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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1992, “Debt - external”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/debt-external/1992.

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