Greece: Short-term external debt

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 Greece

Short-term debt, percent of total external debt

 Latest value 31.49
 Year 2024
 Measure percent
 Data availability 2003 - 2024
 Average 30.01
 Min - Max 17.27 - 48.95
 Source The World Bank
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The latest value from 2024 is 31.49 percent, a decline from 32.47 percent in 2023. In comparison, the world average is 23.55 percent, based on data from 104 countries. Historically, the average for Greece from 2003 to 2024 is 30.01 percent. The minimum value, 17.27 percent, was reached in 2006 while the maximum of 48.95 percent was recorded in 2011. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.
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 Recent values Greece: Short-term external debt
 2024 31.49
 2023 32.47
 2022 32.29
 2021 29.61
 2020 30.12
 2019 23.97
 2018 19.32
 2017 26.26




Definition: External debt with of public and private domestic borrowers to non-residents with maturity of twelve months of less as percent of total external debt. Source: Kose, M. Ayhan, Sergio Kurlat, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara. 2022. "A Cross-Country Database of Fiscal Space." Journal of International Money and Finance 128 (November): 102682.

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