External Debt / Nepal
Nepal External Debt
Nepal external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 23.27%.
COUNTRY: Nepal
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-23 09:45:20
GM ECONOMY RATING
Nepal · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
68 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
13.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
16.0 / 20
External stability
15.0 / 15
Financial robustness
6.0 / 15
Structural stability
9.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Nepal · external debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
23.27%
Previous
24.04%
Range avg.
20.30%
Rank
45
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CountryNepal
IndicatorExternal Debt
23.27%2024 · Rank 45
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Nepal recorded 23.27% for External Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 0.76 percentage points, from 24.04% to 23.27%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (20.30%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 16.54% in 2018 and the high was 24.04% in 2023.
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