Papua New Guinea: Portfolio investment, bonds (PPG + PNG) (NFL, current US$)

Key figures

Since 1973 it is up 1,271% from US$36.47 million in 1973 (5.99% a year on average, compounded). The World Bank has no value for 23 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was US$22.81 million in 1984 and the biggest yearly fall was US$37.47 million in 1988. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

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What this measures

Bonds are securities issued with a fixed rate of interest for a period of more than one year. They include net flows through cross-border public and publicly guaranteed and private nonguaranteed bond issues. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

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 sum.

All 23 values

Portfolio investment, bonds (PPG + PNG) (NFL, current US$) in nearby economies

• China — −US$16.1 billion (2024)
• Fiji — −US$200 million (2020)
• Indonesia — US$3.52 billion (2024)
• Lao PDR — −US$291.97 million (2024)
• Mongolia — US$1.04 billion (2024)
• Philippines — US$5.15 billion (2024)
• Thailand — −US$2.04 billion (2024)
• Viet Nam — −US$4.74 million (2024)

More economic policy & debt data for Papua New Guinea

• GDP (current US$) — US$32.5 billion (2025)
• GDP (current LCU) — 133.98 billion (2025)
• GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$28.68 billion (2025)
• GDP (constant LCU) — 76.24 billion (2025)
• GDP per capita (current US$) — US$3,020 (2025)
• GDP per capita (current LCU) — 12,449 (2025)
• GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$2,665 (2025)
• GDP per capita (constant LCU) — 7,084 (2025)
• GNI (current US$) — US$30.16 billion (2025)
• GNI (current LCU) — 124.34 billion (2025)
• GNI per capita (current LCU)

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Questions people ask

What is Papua New Guinea's portfolio investment, bonds (PPG + PNG) (NFL, current US$)?

US$500 million in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1973?

It is up 1,271% from US$36.47 million in 1973 (5.99% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was US$500 million in 2018 and the lowest −US$40.5 million in 1988.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Debt Statistics, World Bank (WB).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator DT.NFL.BOND.CD, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Debt Statistics, World Bank (WB) 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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