Data · Finance & banking
Total debt service (% of exports of goods, services and primary income): Vietnam, 1996–2024
- Latest (2024)
- 7.72 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- DT.TDS.DECT.EX.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Total debt service to exports of goods, services and primary income. Total debt service is the sum of principal repayments and interest actually paid in currency, goods, or services on long-term debt, interest paid on short-term debt, and repayments (repurchases and charges) to the IMF.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1996 to 2024 (29 years of data). It moved from 4.12 to 7.72 %, a change of 87.5%. The highest value was 9.98 in 1999 and the lowest 1.98 in 2008. 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 (%) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 7.72 |
| 2023 | 7.54 |
| 2022 | 6.77 |
| 2021 | 6.07 |
| 2020 | 5.87 |
| 2019 | 6.09 |
| 2018 | 7.27 |
| 2017 | 6.29 |
| 2016 | 4.07 |
| 2015 | 3.93 |
| 2014 | 4.24 |
| 2013 | 3.19 |
| 2012 | 3.61 |
| 2011 | 3.94 |
| 2010 | 2.35 |
| 2009 | 2.34 |
| 2008 | 1.98 |
| 2007 | 2.24 |
| 2006 | 2.12 |
| 2005 | 2.56 |
| 2004 | 2.67 |
| 2003 | 3.56 |
| 2002 | 6.11 |
| 2001 | 6.71 |
| 2000 | 7.47 |
| 1999 | 9.98 |
| 1998 | 9.05 |
| 1997 | 7.46 |
| 1996 | 4.12 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2024 | 7.72 |
| Thailand | 2024 | 4.68 |
| Indonesia | 2024 | 24.69 |
| Philippines | 2024 | 14.43 |
| Cambodia | 2024 | 10.54 |
| Laos | 2024 | 19.04 |
| Myanmar | 2024 | 7.39 |
| China | 2024 | 8.59 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Total debt service (% of exports of goods, services and primary income), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/DT.TDS.DECT.EX.ZS?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_tds_dect_ex_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.