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Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Economy > External debt > Commitments > Commitments > Official creditors > COM > Current US$

DEFINITION: Commitments are the amount of long-term loans for which contracts were signed in the year specified. Debt from official creditors includes loans from international organisations (multilateral loans) and loans from governments (bilateral loans). Loans from international organisation include loans and credits from the World Bank, regional development banks, and other multilateral and intergovernmental agencies. Excluded are loans from funds administered by an international organisation on behalf of a single donor government; these are classified as loans from governments. Government loans include loans from governments and their agencies (including central banks), loans from autonomous bodies, and direct loans from official export credit agencies. Long-term external debt is defined as debt that has an original or extended maturity of more than one year and that is owed to nonresidents by residents of an economy and repayable in foreign currency, goods, or services. Data are in current U.S. dollars.".

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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 South Africa $2.74 billion 2009
2 Botswana $1.78 billion 2009
3 Sudan $1.28 billion 2009
4 Ethiopia $1.24 billion 2009
5 Mauritius $1.15 billion 2009
6 Nigeria $985.00 million 2009
7 Kenya $980.29 million 2009
8 Uganda $782.72 million 2009
9 Tanzania $763.38 million 2009
10 Ghana $752.01 million 2009
11 Senegal $563.22 million 2009
12 Mali $497.63 million 2009
13 Cameroon $495.72 million 2009
14 Mozambique $445.38 million 2009
15 Benin $231.68 million 2009
16 Togo $211.77 million 2009
17 Malawi $186.67 million 2009
18 Zambia $174.59 million 2009
19 Mauritania $149.97 million 2009
20 Cote d'Ivoire $143.59 million 2009
21 Cape Verde $112.48 million 2009
22 Madagascar $83.22 million 2009
23 Sierra Leone $82.11 million 2009
24 Niger $68.56 million 2009
25 Eritrea $48.93 million 2009
26 Burkina Faso $47.82 million 2009
27 Lesotho $36.23 million 2009
28 Seychelles $34.66 million 2009
29 Djibouti $24.32 million 2009
30 Swaziland $24.16 million 2009
31 Gabon $14.64 million 2009
32 Sao Tome and Principe $10.04 million 2009
33 Burundi $8.00 million 2009
34 The Gambia $7.71 million 2009
35 Chad $2.64 million 2009
=36 Liberia 0.0 2009
=36 Central African Republic 0.0 2009
=36 Guinea 0.0 2009
=36 Rwanda 0.0 2009
=36 Zimbabwe 0.0 2009
=36 Somalia 0.0 2009
=36 Guinea-Bissau 0.0 2009
=36 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.0 2009
=36 Comoros 0.0 2009

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