Economic Policy & Debt · East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD)
Yearly data from 1973 to 2024, from the World Bank.
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD)'s short-term debt (% of total reserves) was 36.98% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 4.96 percentage points from 32.02% in 2014.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 36.98% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 35.73% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 32.02% | 2014 |
| Highest | 90.05% | 1985 |
| Lowest | 10.94% | 2008 |
| Average since 2015 | 33.83% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 51.16% | 1973 |
Over five years it is up 1.25 percentage points from 35.73% in 2019. Since 1973 it is down 14.18 percentage points from 51.16% in 1973. The World Bank has no value for 5 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
In 2024, East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD)'s short-term debt (% of total reserves) rose 0.87 percentage points on 2023 (from 36.11% to 36.98%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was −1.64 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.04 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.4 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 30.15 percentage points in 1992 and the biggest yearly fall was 23.1 percentage points in 1998. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 1.27 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 64% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
Short-term debt includes all debt having an original maturity of one year or less and interest in arrears on long-term debt. Total reserves includes gold.
Limitations: The DRS encourages debtor countries to voluntarily provide information on their short-term external obligations. By its nature, short-term external debt is difficult to monitor: loan-by-loan registration is normally impractical, and monitoring systems typically rely on information requested periodically by the central bank from the banking sector. The World Bank regards the debtor country as the authoritative source of information on its short-term debt. Where such information is not available from the debtor country, data are derived from BIS data on international bank lending based on time remaining to original maturity.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
| Year | Short-term debt (% of total reserves) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 36.98 |
| 2023 | 36.11 |
| 2022 | 37.28 |
| 2021 | 37.64 |
| 2020 | 34.85 |
| 2019 | 35.73 |
| 2018 | 37.26 |
| 2017 | 31.66 |
| 2016 | 26.16 |
| 2015 | 24.67 |
| 2014 | 32.02 |
| 2013 | 28.47 |
| 2012 | 24.29 |
| 2011 | 24.18 |
| 2010 | 18.81 |
| 2009 | 11.29 |
| 2008 | 10.94 |
| 2007 | 14.42 |
| 2006 | 17.19 |
| 2005 | 19.47 |
| 2004 | 21.36 |
| 2003 | 24.33 |
| 2002 | 26.1 |
| 2001 | 31.98 |
| 2000 | 22.25 |
| 1999 | 27.32 |
| 1998 | 34.39 |
| 1997 | 57.48 |
| 1996 | 63.39 |
| 1995 | 70.87 |
| 1994 | 65.82 |
| 1993 | 85.19 |
| 1992 | 82.22 |
| 1991 | 52.07 |
| 1990 | 55.26 |
| 1989 | 57.67 |
| 1988 | 60.66 |
| 1987 | 55.89 |
| 1986 | 72.12 |
| 1985 | 90.05 |
| 1984 | 77.26 |
| 1983 | 74.03 |
| 1982 | 75.89 |
| 1981 | no data |
| 1980 | no data |
| 1979 | no data |
| 1978 | no data |
| 1977 | no data |
| 1976 | 61.67 |
| 1975 | 65.14 |
| 1974 | 39.74 |
| 1973 | 51.16 |
Every indicator for East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD) is on the East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD) data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator DT.DOD.DSTC.IR.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Development Indicators, World Bank (WB); International Monetary Fund (IMF), type: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files; World Bank (WB), type: GDP estimates; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), type: GDP estimates Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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