Pakistan’s external debt nearly doubles in a decade to $135bn: World Bank

Pakistan's external debt nearly doubled over the past decade, reaching $135.1 billion in 2025, according to the World Bank's International Debt Report 2026. In 2015, the figure was $68.673 billion. The report highlighted that Pakistan's total external debt included $107.076 billion in public and publicly guaranteed debt, $17.58 billion in private non-guaranteed debt, and $10.45 billion in short-term debt.

Of the public and publicly guaranteed debt, $56.83 billion was owed to multilateral creditors, $42.43 billion to bilateral creditors, and $7.8 billion to private creditors. China was Pakistan's largest individual creditor, with $22.4 billion outstanding, followed by the World Bank with $19.2 billion and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with $16.83 billion.