External Debt / Laos
Laos External Debt
Laos external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 115.40%.
COUNTRY: Laos
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-23 09:45:20
GM ECONOMY RATING
Laos · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
54 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
3.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
16.0 / 20
External stability
10.0 / 15
Financial robustness
5.0 / 15
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
4.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Laos · external debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
115.40%
Previous
122.95%
Range avg.
105.26%
Rank
3
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CountryLaos
IndicatorExternal Debt
115.40%2024 · Rank 3
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Laos recorded 115.40% for External Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 7.55 percentage points, from 122.95% to 115.40%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (105.26%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 83.34% in 2015 and the high was 129.23% in 2022.
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