Global debt sees first annual drop since 2015: IFF report

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The amount of developing world debt hit a new record high of US$98 trillion with Russia, Singapore, India, Mexico, and Vietnam seeing the largest individual rises. theSun theSundaily business debt worlddebt Finance

Euro, Hong Kong dollar, US dollar, Japanese yen, pound and Chinese 100 yuan banknotes are seen in this picture illustration. Wealthy countries as a group saw total debt decline roughly US$6 trillion to US$200 trillion. – Reuterspic: The post-Covid-19 pandemic rebound in world growth and inflation last year meant the amount of debt sloshing around the global economy saw its first annual fall in dollar terms since 2015, a widely tracked study has shown.

In contrast, the amount of developing world debt hit a new record high of US$98 trillion with Russia, Singapore, India, Mexico, and Vietnam seeing the largest individual rises. Breaking the numbers down further, the IIF, a global banking trade group, estimated that the emerging market government debt-to-GDP ratio climbed to almost 65% of GDP in 2022 from just under 64%.

JPMorgan calculated that developed market public sector debt as a share of GDP has surged to 122% from 73% just before the crash and by over 30 percentage points of GDP in 13 of 21 major economies and over 45%-pts in nine of them.

 

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