Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries by external debt
It is our #STATS|policy not to include excessively raw statistics.  If readers want this information we should direct them to a source such as the http://www.imf.org/external/np/sta/ed/ed.htm IMF which tabulates these properly.  And this is best done in a summary article such as External debt.  Note that these figures are easily misunderstood or misrepresented.  The UK has a very large figure - almost as big as the USA.  This is being used in press scare stories but mostly represents the gross external liabilities of the financial institutions based in the City of London.  This has to be taken together with their corresponding assets because these institutions trade money back and forth on a grand scale and what really matters are the differences which determine the net profit/loss.  Failing to do so is contrary to  and 
— User:Colonel, 19:25, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
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