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What is the ratio of general government external debt to GDP?

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Definition:	Gross external debt position, general government, all maturities, all instruments, as percent of GDP
Year:	2019
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	World Bank, Quarterly External Debt Statistics, IMF World Economic Outlook
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
Annotation:	World Bank: Dataset: Quarterly External Debt Statistics SDDS, Gross Ext. Debt Pos., general government, all maturities, all instruments, USD [DT.DOD.DECT.CD.GG.AR.US], debt position at 4th quarter of each reference year. URL: https://databank.worldbank.o… extracted May 20th, 2020 IMF: Dataset: World Economic Outlook October 2019, gross domestic product, current prices, USD URL: https://www.imf.org/external… extracted March 1oth, 2020

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	0.725
/	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)

Top group

Score

External Debt to GDP

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Switzerland

9.5

0.04

South Korea

9.3

0.06

Malta

9.1

0.07

Estonia

9.0

0.08

Upper middle group

Bulgaria

8.9

0.09

Israel

8.9

0.09

Chile

8.8

0.10

Denmark

8.8

0.10

Iceland

8.8

0.10

Luxembourg

8.6

0.11

Sweden

8.6

0.11

Czechia

8.5

0.12

Turkey

8.4

0.13

Mexico

8.0

0.16

New Zealand

7.9

0.17

Romania

7.8

0.18

Australia

7.6

0.19

Norway

7.5

0.20

Poland

7.5

0.20

Canada

7.4

0.21

Netherlands

7.1

0.23

Croatia

7.0

0.24

Hungary

7.0

0.24

Japan

6.5

0.28

Germany

6.2

0.31

Latvia

6.2

0.31

Slovakia

6.2

0.31

USA

6.0

0.32

Lower middle group

Lithuania

5.8

0.34

5.7

0.35

Ireland

4.7

0.43

Slovenia

4.4

0.45

Italy

4.0

0.48

Spain

3.4

0.53

Austria

3.0

0.56

Finland

3.0

0.56

Bottom group

France

2.9

0.57

Belgium

1.8

0.66

Portugal

1.6

0.68

Cyprus

1.0

0.80

Greece

1.0

1.57

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