foreign debt

noun

: the amount of money that a country owes other countries

the nation's growing foreign debt

Examples of foreign debt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Argentina’s large and restructured stock of foreign debt, together with its obligations with the IMF, present another major challenge in the near future. —Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025

Yields from foreign debt can be affected by currency markets. —Jesse Pound, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024

For years leading up to the pandemic, the African continent as a whole suffered financially more from foreign investors’ profit transfers and from illicit financial flows than from foreign debt payments. —Martín Abregú, Foreign Affairs, 27 Nov. 2024

For debtor nations, debt-for-nature swaps provide financial relief by reducing the burden of foreign debt, freeing up resources for other developmental needs. —The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 July 2024