Across 11 countries in Africa, the highest value is in Mozambique (78.9 %) and the lowest in Botswana (16.2 %).
The median country is at 44.8 %: half are above, half below.
Debt is the entire stock of direct government fixed-term contractual obligations to others outstanding on a particular date. It includes domestic and foreign liabilities such as currency and money deposits, securities other than shares, and loans. It is the gross amount of government liabilities reduced by the amount of equity and financial derivatives held by the government. Because debt is a stock rather than a…
World Bank, WDI · GC.DOD.TOTL.GD.ZS · 2019 · CC BY 4.0Source and licence
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uses the latest year for which at least half of the countries have a value; countries
without a value that year are not listed.
