External Debt / Ethiopia
Ethiopia External Debt
Ethiopia external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 24.26%.
COUNTRY: Ethiopia
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-06-13 04:01:56
GM ECONOMY RATING
Ethiopia · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
61 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
11.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
15.0 / 20
External stability
11.0 / 15
Financial robustness
8.0 / 15
Structural stability
8.8 / 15
Future capacity
7.0 / 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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Ethiopia · external debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
24.26%
Previous
28.91%
Range avg.
30.34%
Rank
24
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CountryEthiopia
IndicatorExternal Debt
24.26%2022 · Rank 24
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Ethiopia recorded 24.26% for External Debt in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator decreased by 4.65 percentage points, from 28.91% to 24.26%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (30.34%).
Across the five latest available observations (2018–2022), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 24.26% in 2022 and the high was 35.57% in 2018.
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