The level of Russia's external debt relative to GDP has decreased by 10 percentage points to 16.6%, the lowest level since 2002 (no earlier statistics is publicly available), the data showed.
A lower figure among the largest economies has been recorded only in China, where it decreased to 13.7% from 15.4% over the last year, followed by India with an external debt estimated at 19.1% relative to the country's GDP, the data said.
Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the figure stood at 380.5% relative to the country's GDP, in the UK at 287%, and in Switzerland at 280.5% in 2022, decreasing by 14, 29, and 16 percentage points respectively, according to the statistics.