Data · Trade & foreign investment
External debt stocks, total (DOD, current US$): Vietnam, 1981–2024
- Latest (2024)
- 132.9 USD billion
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- DT.DOD.DECT.CD
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
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.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1981 to 2024 (44 years of data). It moved from 0.0 to 132.9 USD billion. The highest value was 146.6 in 2022 and the lowest 0.0 in 1981. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 7 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (USD billion) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 132.9 |
| 2023 | 141.8 |
| 2022 | 146.6 |
| 2021 | 139.9 |
| 2020 | 129.5 |
| 2019 | 122.5 |
| 2018 | 112.6 |
| 2017 | 109.9 |
| 2016 | 90.5 |
| 2015 | 81.8 |
| 2014 | 74.7 |
| 2013 | 66.2 |
| 2012 | 62.3 |
| 2011 | 54.3 |
| 2010 | 45.0 |
| 2009 | 32.8 |
| 2008 | 26.5 |
| 2007 | 23.1 |
| 2006 | 18.8 |
| 2005 | 18.6 |
| 2004 | 17.6 |
| 2003 | 15.6 |
| 2002 | 13.3 |
| 2001 | 12.6 |
| 2000 | 12.8 |
| 1999 | 23.3 |
| 1998 | 22.5 |
| 1997 | 21.8 |
| 1996 | 26.3 |
| 1995 | 25.5 |
| 1994 | 24.9 |
| 1993 | 24.2 |
| 1992 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 23.4 |
| 1990 | 23.3 |
| 1989 | 20.7 |
| 1988 | 0.6 |
| 1987 | 0.2 |
| 1986 | 0.2 |
| 1985 | 0.1 |
| 1984 | 0.1 |
| 1983 | 0.1 |
| 1982 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 0.0 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2024 | 132.9 |
| Thailand | 2024 | 191.8 |
| Indonesia | 2024 | 421.1 |
| Philippines | 2024 | 137.0 |
| Cambodia | 2024 | 21.0 |
| Laos | 2024 | 17.8 |
| Myanmar | 2024 | 11.2 |
| China | 2024 | 2,419.8 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). External debt stocks, total (DOD, current US$), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/DT.DOD.DECT.CD?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name dt_dod_dect_cd, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.