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What is the ratio of gross external debt to exports of goods and services?

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Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Gross external debt position (GEDP) all sectors, all maturities, all instruments, as percent of export revenues
Year:	2021
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	World Bank, Quarterly External Debt Statistics, World Development Indicators
Data for:	AUS, AUT, BEL, BGR, CAN, CHL, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ISR, ITA, JPN, KOR, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, MEX, NLD, NZL, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR, USA
Exceptions:	CHL (2020), IRL (2019), LVA (2020)
Annotation:	World Bank: Dataset: Quarterly External Debt Statistics SDDS, gross ext. debt pos., all sectors, all maturities, all instruments, USD [DT.DOD.DECT.CD.AR.US], debt position at 4th quarter of each reference year. URL: https://databank.worldbank.o… extracted June 11th, 2022 World Bank: Dataset: World Development Indicators, exports of goods and services (BoP, current US$) [BX.GSR.GNFS.CD] URL: https://databank.worldbank.o… extracted July 1st, 2022

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	10.745
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9
Annotat.:	Indicator calculated by Margit Kraus (Calculus Consult)

Additional annotations and exceptions

Data on gross external debt position refer to fourth quarter of each respective year.

Top group

Score

External Debt to Exports

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South Korea

9.3

0.81

Poland

9.3

0.88

Lithuania

9.2

0.91

Bulgaria

9.2

0.92

Czechia

9.2

0.99

Estonia

9.1

1.02

Slovenia

9.1

1.11

Israel

9.1

1.12

Mexico

9.0

1.16

Upper middle group

Romania

8.9

1.32

Slovakia

8.8

1.40

Croatia

8.8

1.42

Turkey

8.7

1.56

Hungary

8.5

1.77

Iceland

8.2

2.17

Latvia

8.1

2.22

Denmark

7.9

2.45

Chile

7.8

2.63

Austria

7.7

2.74

Belgium

7.6

2.88

Germany

7.1

3.47

Sweden

7.0

3.53

Norway

7.0

3.63

New Zealand

6.8

3.80

Italy

6.6

4.03

Switzerland

6.5

4.12

Australia

6.5

4.17

Canada

6.4

4.24

Portugal

6.3

4.39

Netherlands

6.0

4.73

Lower middle group

Malta

5.9

4.89

Finland

5.8

5.03

Japan

5.8

5.06

Spain

5.6

5.31

Ireland

5.2

5.68

Greece

4.0

7.21

France

3.4

7.87

Bottom group

USA

2.3

9.23

Cyprus

1.8

9.74

1.0

11.48

Luxembourg

1.0

23.51