Table 6.18
                 External Debt and debt indicators, 1994-International comparison
Sl.	  Country		(EDT)       EDT/GNP	 PV of Debt	 PV/GNP	 PV/XGS	  TDS/XGS    Concess-
No.			   (US$ Billion)	(%)	   (US$ Bn)	    (%)	    (%)	      (%)    ional/EDT(%)
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1.	  Brazil	      151.104	      27.9	  139.994	  32.0	 311.0	    31.8	  1.8
2.	  Mexico	      128.302	      35.2	  117.331	  33.0	 224.0	    33.9	  1.3
3.	  China		      100.536	      19.3	   85.682	  16.0	  75.0	     8.9	 15.9
4.	  India	 	       98.990	      34.2	   70.665	  26.0	 214.0 	    26.3	 48.2
5.	  Indonesia.	       96.500	      57.4	   84.194 	  54.0 	 186.0	    30.0	 29.9
6.	  Russian Fed.	       94.232	      25.4	   86.861	  19.0	 158.0 	     6.2	  7.0
7.	  Argentina	       77.388	      27.8 	   68.521	  29.0	 406.0	    31.8	  3.2
8.	  Turkey	       66.332	      51.4	   56.913	  37.0	 188.0 	    31.2	 12.1
9.	  Thailand	       60.991	      43.1	   60.037 	  39.0	  96.0      15.6	 11.3
10.	  Korea Rep.	       54.542	      15.3	   49.743	  14.0	  45.0	     6.8	  9.0
11.	  Philippines	       39.302	      59.3	   35.027	  56.0	 163.0 	    18.5	 28.7
12.	  Malaysia	       24.767	      36.9	   22.112	  34.0	  38.0 	     7.7	 13.5
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Source:	   a)	All the figures and ratios have been taken from World Debt Tables, 1996 (Vol I & II).
	   b)	For PV based ratios, three year averages are used.
EDT	-	External debt total.
PV	-	Present value.
GNP	-	Gross National Product.
XGS	-	Export of goods and services.
TDS	-	Total debt service.
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