External Debt / Colombia
Colombia External Debt
Colombia external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 49.20%.
COUNTRY: Colombia
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-06-13 04:01:56
GM ECONOMY RATING
Colombia · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
59 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
9.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
13.0 / 20
External stability
9.0 / 15
Financial robustness
10.0 / 15
Structural stability
12.0 / 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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Colombia · external debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
49.20%
Previous
54.97%
Range avg.
48.08%
Rank
8
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CountryColombia
IndicatorExternal Debt
49.20%2024 · Rank 8
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Colombia recorded 49.20% for External Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 5.77 percentage points, from 54.97% to 49.20%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (48.08%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 39.16% in 2015 and the high was 58.20% in 2020.
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