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What Economies Rely the Most on Foreign Funding?

Net Foreign Assets to GDP (%), 2011 or latest
Banking | April 17, 2018
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Based on a comparison of 72 countries in 2011, Luxembourg ranked the highest in net foreign assets as a share of GDP with 1,118% followed by Malta and Algeria. On the other end of the scale was New Zealand with -43.1%, Greece with -38.8% and Australia with -20.6%.

Data for more countries are available at Net Foreign Assets (As % of GDP) indicator page.

Net Foreign Assets (As % of GDP) Unit 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Algeria % 83.0% 85.6% 70.3% 56.5% 44.9%
Austria % 42.6% 41.1% 33.2% 30.6% 27.8%
China % 44.7% 38.8% 33.7% 31.6% 26.9%
Finland % 19.4% 24.7% 15.2% 4.54% 32.0%
France % 23.5% 24.3% 21.2% 18.8% 15.1%
Germany % 52.3% 54.7% 50.7% 53.4% 49.8%
Iceland % 30.4% 30.6% 22.6% 14.5% 13.9%
Ireland % ... 47.3% 43.1% 43.0% 49.2% 48.4%
Luxembourg % 551% 585% 566% 612% 569%
Malaysia % 27.2% 27.8% 25.8% 25.7% 20.6%
Malta % 95.4% 88.2% 85.1% 96.6% 87.0%
Netherlands % 26.9% 29.9% 28.0% 26.4% 27.3%
Singapore % 69.7% 69.4% 68.0% 69.0% 60.4%
Switzerland % 64.4% 65.8% 72.5% ... ... ... ...
Thailand % 37.6% 40.6% 41.5% 43.0% 40.9%