today plate 295 · new routes · 2024 data

Foreign debt payments now top foreign investment in 87 countries

  • 87 of 117 Countries that paid more on their foreign debt in 2024 than they received in new foreign investment, up from 57 in 2014.
  • 33 joined Among them Brazil, Colombia, Viet Nam, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Zambia and Senegal; only Egypt, Guinea and the Gambia left the group.
  • 80 of 109 Counting only countries with positive investment both years (50 in 2014): creditors were paid more than investors brought in for most of them.
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