External Debt / Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste External Debt
Timor-Leste external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 15.37%.
COUNTRY: Timor-Leste
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-23 09:45:20
GM ECONOMY RATING
Timor-Leste · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
59 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
20.0 / 20
External stability
8.2 / 15
Financial robustness
7.0 / 15
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
5.8 / 10
Demographic capacity
4.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Timor-Leste · external debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
15.37%
Previous
12.56%
Range avg.
8.27%
Rank
51
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CountryTimor-Leste
IndicatorExternal Debt
15.37%2024 · Rank 51
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Timor-Leste recorded 15.37% for External Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 2.81 percentage points, from 12.56% to 15.37%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (8.27%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 3.64% in 2016 and the high was 15.37% in 2024.
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