Talk:List of countries by external debt

message: Guys look at the United States' external debt?? -Azpineapple (talk) 10:25, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: This article needs a map. Please, someone nice do it.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by LucasW (talk • contribs) 05:41, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: This list is generally terrible but Australia is very badly formatted, some sort of bad markdown or something idfk... We should get someone with extra time to come in here and fix the whole thing, it's an important page and not a very long one either. Also make it easier to edit the table, editors have bad conventions when it comes to stuff like this.
-Language Bꙮi Language Boi (talk) 22:55, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australia 

message: Mauritius, per its current numbers, has a debt of $200Bn USD and a Debt-to-GDP % of 2.00%, which would give it a GDP of approximately 10 trillion dollars, putting it roughly on par with China. Could someone with the proper statistical know-how please find a source with the correct data and fix this? I tried to search for it myself but there are an unreasonably large number of conflicting reports that I do not have the time to sift through. Thanks NintendoRevolutionNR (talk) 00:13, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mauritius $10Tn GDP 

message: I'm just now in the process to make this table sortable for its main column.
I thought all those missing "Format price" entries would mess it up. But even properly formatted entries are not sorted well, because it seems that the list is sorted according to the leading numbers and not according to million/billion/trillion first.
I think it is better to factorize out the "million" and leave the values in the column plain. Manorainjan 18:53, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The problem to sort this table 

message: the table rappresents the public debt not the external debt . 5.90.185.136 (talk) 11:28, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not correct table 

message: why is Israel not included here? 2601:84:8B02:B160:80E9:400:4E0C:2542 (talk) 23:25, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isreal 

message: Something is wrong with Serbia debt per capita. There are 6,9 million people living in Serbia, so 38,6 billion debt can not translate to 37845 debt per capita. It should be around 5,6k.
Maybe there are similar mistakes here also? 87.116.135.24 (talk) 09:07, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that's true. Serbian debt per capita is obviously wrong. 178.221.215.153 (talk) 20:08, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serbia mistake 

message: The list is incorrect in a lot of points! Uk has a higher debt than Japan, Ireland has a 500% debt on gdp and that would be an absurd record, Ireland has only 45%! Many other things are incorrect .  Reading this list I thought Japan had solved its debt problem in like a year, but no it's top of the list 82.163.32.166 (talk) 15:49, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's happening? 

message: When using the little arrow icons in the table header is used to sort tables per column, if there are rows have numbers followed by million or billion, example: 930 million and 600 billion, the sorting puts the row w8th 930 million. I think the rows should have the full numbers without text, or the sorting logic has to be smarter. Tnkpre (talk) 11:50, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorting in the table is incorrect 

message: Algeria's external debt is less than 10 billion not 80 billion dollars.
The link provided doesn't add up, it leads to Singapore's... 197.204.127.1 (talk) 08:57, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Algeria's external debt  

message: Where are the US even in this list? Why were they removed?
What the hell is happening on this page? Alves Stargazer (talk) 03:18, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did the US debt disappear? 

message: Why you do not add US in there? 103.134.2.35 (talk) 14:37, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing one country  

message: Just noticed the US had been removed last week by random ip user, after several edits seeking to have India ranked in first place(?) Typical vandalism. - wolf 04:24, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  United States 

message: This article defines "external debt" as public/government debt + private debt.
It's then divided by "% of total wealth", with total wealth figures from the Global Wealth Databook series.
My issue with this is that the total wealth (for adult individuals) figures from the Global Wealth Databook are essentially: assets - debt: calculating external debt as a % of wealth held by individuals gives percentages that are too high. There should perhaps be instead be a column "external debt as a % of assets held by individuals", and maybe a column for public debt as a % of private wealth, and maybe a column for private debt as a % of private assets.
Also, as I understand, the Global Wealth Databook only calculates wealth for individuals aged 20 and older, whereas I think the "per capita" column here gives external debt for the entire recorded population for each country, which possibly skews figures for other columns. Quentin Johnson (talk) 07:19, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  % of total wealth figure