South Africa External Debt
South Africa external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 44.83%.
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South Africa · external debt data as percent of GDP.
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Growth & Output9
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Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
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Interpretation
South Africa recorded 44.83% for External Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.67 percentage points, from 44.16% to 44.83%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (45.25%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 37.71% in 2015 and the high was 52.78% in 2020.