Pakistan's external debt nearly doubled to $135bn in a decade: World Bank report

Islamabad, Nov 6 (UNI) Pakistan's external debt nearly doubled to $135.1bn in 2025 from $68.67bn in 2015, highlighting the country's growing reliance on foreign borrowing, according to the World Bank's International Debt Report 2026. The total included $107.08bn in public and publicly guaranteed debt, $17.58bn in private non-guaranteed debt and $10.45bn in short-term obligations. Of the public and publicly guaranteed debt, $56.83bn was owed to multilateral creditors, $42.43bn to bilateral lenders and $7.8bn to private creditors, Dawn reported. China was Pakistan's largest individual creditor, with $22.4bn outstanding, followed by the World Bank with $19.2bn and the Asian Development Bank (ADB)…