External Debt / Brazil
Brazil External Debt
Brazil external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 28.66%.
COUNTRY: Brazil
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-06-13 04:01:56
GM ECONOMY RATING
Brazil · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
63 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
7.1 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
15.0 / 20
External stability
11.0 / 15
Financial robustness
10.6 / 15
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
5.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
4.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Brazil · external debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
28.66%
Previous
28.63%
Range avg.
31.07%
Rank
22
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IndicatorExternal Debt
28.66%2024 · Rank 22
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Brazil recorded 28.66% for External Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.03 percentage points, from 28.63% to 28.66%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (31.07%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 26.82% in 2017 and the high was 38.01% in 2020.
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