Papua New Guinea External Debt
Papua New Guinea external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 41.89%.
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Papua New Guinea · external debt data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Papua New Guinea recorded 41.89% for External Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 12.40 percentage points, from 54.29% to 41.89%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (75.68%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 41.89% in 2024 and the high was 100.40% in 2015.