Ethiopia vs Ghana: External debt, end year

Ethiopia
7.20 billion current US$
in 2011
Ghana
11.65 billion current US$
in 2010
Ethiopia rank
12th
Ghana rank
9th

External debt, end year over time

  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
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How they compare

Ghana currently reports 11.65 billion current US$ against 7.20 billion current US$ in Ethiopia, a difference of 4.45 billion current US$.

That makes Ghana's figure about 1.6 times Ethiopia's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 30 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Ethiopia ahead.

Ethiopia ranks 12th and Ghana ranks 9th of 42 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
External debt, end year (current US$)
Unit
current US$
Source
World Bank country economists
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
48 places, 1,232 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 U.S. dollars.