External Debt / China
China External Debt
China external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 13.00%.
COUNTRY: China
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-06-13 04:01:56
GM ECONOMY RATING
China · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
A
78 / 100
Strong stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
19.0 / 20
External stability
15.0 / 15
Financial robustness
14.0 / 15
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 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.
Time range:
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China · external debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
13.00%
Previous
13.51%
Range avg.
13.76%
Rank
28
Countries by external debt
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CountryChina
IndicatorExternal Debt
13.00%2024 · Rank 28
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
China recorded 13.00% for External Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 0.51 percentage points, from 13.51% to 13.00%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (13.76%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 11.88% in 2015 and the high was 15.63% in 2020.
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