{
 "name": "India External Debt (Total, Short-Term, % of GDP)",
 "unit": "USD billion and percent (approximate, rounded)",
 "total_external_debt_usd_bn_approx": 715,
 "short_term_debt_usd_bn_approx": 130,
 "short_term_share_pct_approx": 18.2,
 "external_debt_pct_gdp_approx": 19.0,
 "reserves_to_external_debt_pct_approx": 90,
 "composition_usd_bn_approx": [
  {
   "component": "External commercial borrowings (ECB)",
   "value": 235,
   "share_pct": 32.9
  },
  {
   "component": "NRI deposits (FCNR-B, NRE, NRO)",
   "value": 160,
   "share_pct": 22.4
  },
  {
   "component": "Short-term trade credit",
   "value": 120,
   "share_pct": 16.8
  },
  {
   "component": "Multilateral (e.g. IBRD, ADB)",
   "value": 75,
   "share_pct": 10.5
  },
  {
   "component": "Bilateral",
   "value": 32,
   "share_pct": 4.5
  },
  {
   "component": "Other (incl. rupee debt, FII in G-secs)",
   "value": 93,
   "share_pct": 13.0
  }
 ],
 "dashboard": "https://bankpulse.ai/dashboards/external-debt/",
 "source": "RBI / DBIE external-debt statistics, rbi.org.in",
 "reviewed_by": "Vikram Jain",
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "updated": "2026-06-19T04:08:11+05:30",
 "dateModified": "2026-06-19T04:08:11+05:30",
 "note": "Approximate, illustrative recent end-period magnitudes, rounded. See RBI / Ministry of Finance for exact latest quarterly external-debt figures."
}