External Debt / Syria
Syria External Debt
Syria external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 25.33%.
COUNTRY: Syria
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-23 09:45:20
GM ECONOMY RATING
Syria · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
CCC
45 / 100
High vulnerability
Fiscal stability
n/a
Macroeconomic stability
5.0 / 20
External stability
11.0 / 15
Financial robustness
5.0 / 15
Structural stability
6.8 / 15
Future capacity
6.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 76% of weighted inputs available.
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Syria · external debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
25.33%
Previous
21.31%
Range avg.
28.29%
Rank
43
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CountrySyria
IndicatorExternal Debt
25.33%2023 · Rank 43
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Syria recorded 25.33% for External Debt in 2023, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2022, the indicator increased by 4.02 percentage points, from 21.31% to 25.33%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (28.29%).
Across the five latest available observations (2019–2023), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 21.13% in 2019 and the high was 41.26% in 2020.
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