China vs India: External debt stocks, total
External debt stocks, total over time
- China
- India
How they compare
China currently reports 2.42 trillion DOD, current US$ against 716.46 billion DOD, current US$ in India, a difference of 1.70 trillion DOD, current US$.
That makes China's figure about 3.4 times India's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 44 shared years of data; in 1981 it was India ahead.
Globally, China ranks 1st and India ranks 2nd of 121 countries.
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About this data
Total external debt is debt owed to nonresidents repayable in currency, goods, or services. Total external debt is the sum of public, publicly guaranteed, and private nonguaranteed long-term debt, use of IMF credit, and short-term debt. Short-term debt includes all debt having an original maturity of one year or less and interest in arrears on long-term debt. Data are in current U.S. dollars.