Countries setting limits on excessive borrowing

Binary indicator: 1 indicates yes; 0 indicates no. World Bank indicator.

📅 2017📏 yes/no (1=yes)117 entries

Asia · 33

Americas · 22

Africa · 26

Europe · 31

Oceania · 5

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Every dot is one country, placed by its value (yes/no (1=yes)); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.

🇧🇭Bahrain

Yes

🇧🇹Bhutan

Yes

🇧🇴Bolivia

Yes

🇧🇮Burundi

Yes

🇰🇭Cambodia

Yes

🇨🇱Chile

Yes

🇨🇴Colombia

Yes

🇩🇯Djibouti

Yes

🇪🇨Ecuador

Yes

🇪🇬Egypt

Yes

🇪🇪Estonia

Yes

🇸🇿Eswatini

Yes

🇭🇹Haiti

Yes

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Yes

🇭🇺Hungary

Yes

🇮🇱Israel

Yes

🇰🇼Kuwait

Yes

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

Yes

🇱🇻Latvia

Yes

🇱🇧Lebanon

Yes

🇱🇹Lithuania

Yes

🇲🇷Mauritania

Yes

🇲🇺Mauritius

Yes

🇲🇦Morocco

Yes

🇳🇱Netherlands

Yes

🇴🇲Oman

Yes

🇵🇰Pakistan

Yes

🇵🇭Philippines

Yes

🇿🇦South Africa

Yes

🇰🇷South Korea

Yes

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Yes

🇹🇭Thailand

Yes

🇹🇳Tunisia

Yes

🇹🇷Türkiye

Yes

🇦🇫Afghanistan

🇦🇱Albania

🇦🇴Angola

🇦🇷Argentina

🇦🇲Armenia

🇦🇺Australia

🇦🇹Austria

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

🇧🇸Bahamas

🇧🇩Bangladesh

🇧🇪Belgium

🇧🇼Botswana

🇧🇷Brazil

🇧🇬Bulgaria

🇨🇦Canada

🇰🇾Cayman Islands

Highlights

As of 2017, Bahrain ranks first with Yes, followed by Bhutan (Yes) and Bolivia (Yes).

The top two are virtually level: Bahrain and Bhutan differ by less than 1%.

Across 117 countries and territories, values run from Yes (Bahrain) to No (Zimbabwe), with a median of No.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from the Americas, 3 from Africa and 3 from Asia.

Source: World Bank Open Data, 2017. Unit: yes/no (1=yes).

Source: World Bank Open Data · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026

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