Debt Statistics

International Debt Report 2025

For more than five decades, the World Bank’s premier annual publication on debt, now titled the International Debt Report (IDR), along with the associated International Debt Statistics (IDS) database, have helped shape policies in development finance by sharing timely and comprehensive external debt data and analysis with the international community.

IDR2025: LMICs Face Their Largest External Debt Outflows in 50 Years

This year, IDR 2025 covers end‑2024 debt flows and stock positions, the macro and debt outlook for 2025 and beyond, and updates on debt transparency. It also reports on recent debt levels and trends, assesses near‑term risks for LMICs amid shifting global financial and trade conditions, examines regional debt patterns, and analyzes how elevated debt‑servicing burdens affect development priorities. Check out the related blog for a snapshot and the latest data.

Putting debt-strapped countries on a sustainable path

Debt is still building in pernicious ways. Even if countries had options to climb out of the hole quickly, governments should not be risking debt distress: the long-term human costs are simply unaffordable. But such options are hardly abundant today—and there are few signs that anything will change soon. Unless it does, the easing of financial conditions today could encourage poor and vulnerable countries to sleepwalk into a larger calamity tomorrow.

Developing Countries’ Debt Outflows Hit 50-Year High During 2022-2024

Developing countries paid out $741 billion more in principal and interest on their external debt than they received in new financing between 2022 and 2024—the largest gap in at least 50 years, according to the World Bank’s latest International Debt Report.

International Debt Statistics

The latest data from the most comprehensive and transparent source of cross comparable external debt data of low- and middle-income countries. Visit the World Bank's DataBank to explore the IDS database.

International Debt Statistics

Debt Service Suspension Initiative

Quarterly External Debt Statistics

Quarterly Public Sector Debt

Joint External Debt Hub