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Botswana vs Ghana: External debt, end year

Botswana
18.58 billion current LCU
in 2011
Ghana
20.81 billion current LCU
in 2010
Botswana rank
33rd
Ghana rank
31st

External debt, end year over time

  • Botswana
  • Ghana
05.0B10.0B15.0B20.0B198019952011

How they compare

Ghana currently reports 20.81 billion current LCU against 18.58 billion current LCU in Botswana, a difference of 2.23 billion current LCU.

That makes Ghana's figure about 1.1 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 21 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Ghana ahead.

Botswana ranks 33rd and Ghana ranks 31st of 47 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
External debt, end year (current LCU)
Unit
current LCU
Source
World Bank country economists
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
47 places, 1,123 data points, 1965–2011
Last refreshed

Foreign debt consists of the outstanding stock or recognized, direct liabilities of the government to the rest of the world, generated in the past and scheduled to be extinguished by government operations in the future or to continue as perpetual debt. Data are in current local currency.