External Debt / Vietnam
Vietnam External Debt
Vietnam external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 28.85%.
COUNTRY: Vietnam
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-06-13 04:01:56
GM ECONOMY RATING
Vietnam · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
AA
88 / 100
Very strong stability
Fiscal stability
n/a
Macroeconomic stability
18.0 / 20
External stability
15.0 / 15
Financial robustness
12.0 / 15
Structural stability
11.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
4.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 76% of weighted inputs available.
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Vietnam · external debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
28.85%
Previous
34.48%
Range avg.
37.15%
Rank
21
Countries by external debt
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CountryVietnam
IndicatorExternal Debt
28.85%2024 · Rank 21
Chart range
All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Vietnam recorded 28.85% for External Debt in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 5.63 percentage points, from 34.48% to 28.85%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (37.15%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 28.85% in 2024 and the high was 41.57% in 2017.
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