Nigeria external debt for 2023 was 102.48 billion US dollars, a 0.6% decline from 2022.
Nigeria external debt for 2022 was 103.10 billion US dollars, a 7.05% increase from 2021.
Nigeria external debt for 2021 was 96.31 billion US dollars, a 9.88% increase from 2020.
Nigeria external debt for 2020 was 87.65 billion US dollars, a 7.71% increase from 2019.
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. The full historical dataset is available for download here: Nigeria External Debt | Historical Data | 1970 - 2023.