External Debt / Russia
Russia External Debt
Russia external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 16.76%.
COUNTRY: Russia
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-06-13 04:01:56
GM ECONOMY RATING
Russia · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
A
77 / 100
Strong stability
Fiscal stability
17.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
12.0 / 20
External stability
13.0 / 15
Financial robustness
12.0 / 15
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
3.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Russia · external debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
16.76%
Previous
26.43%
Range avg.
30.62%
Rank
27
Countries by external debt
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IndicatorExternal Debt
16.76%2022 · Rank 27
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Russia recorded 16.76% for External Debt in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator decreased by 9.68 percentage points, from 26.43% to 16.76%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (30.62%).
Across the five latest available observations (2018–2022), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 16.76% in 2022 and the high was 43.12% in 2016.
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