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Total amount of domestic private debt securities (amounts outstanding) issued in domestic markets as a share of GDP. It covers data on long-term bonds and notes, commercial paper and other short-term notes. Table 16A (domestic debt amount): all issuers minus governments / GDP. End of year data (i.e. December data) are considered for debt securities. The figures are deflated using the following methodology: {(0.5)*[Ft/P_et + Ft-1/P_et-1]}/[GDPt/P_at] where F is the level domestic private debt, P_e is end-of period CPI, and P_a is average annual CPI. GDP is from World Development Indicators. End-of period CPI is taken from IFS line 64M..ZF month of December (or if not available Q4). Average an
As of 2020, Denmark ranks first with 170.99%, followed by Canada (81.49%) and South Korea (77.57%).
Denmark is 2.1 times higher than Canada, the runner-up.
Across 25 countries and territories, values run from 170.99% (Denmark) to 0.03% (Lebanon), with a median of 44.81%.
By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Asia, 3 from Europe, 1 from the Americas and 1 from Oceania.
Source: World Bank Open Data — Outstanding domestic private debt securities to GDP (%), 2020. Unit: %.
Source: World Bank Open Data — Outstanding domestic private debt securities to GDP (%) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026