Venezuela: foreign debt as share of GDP 2000-2016

Venezuela's total central government debt in 2016 reached 31.1 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), of which a share of 11.4 percent was public debt that the Venezuelan central government owed to foreign creditors. In the period between 2000 and 2016, the volume of external debt in relation to GDP reached a peak of 29.6 percent in 2003 and its lowest point at 7.8 percent in 2015.