Chinese overseas lending / NAM
Namibia: debt owed to China
In 2021, Namibia is estimated to have owed China $489m, equal to 3.9% of its GDP, which ranks it 79 of 126 borrowers in the panel by dollars owed. The estimated stock peaked at $1.69bn in 2016.
The estimated stock, 2000 to 2021
The largest single-year move in the estimated stock is 2014, when it rose by $461m.
Source: Horn, Reinhart and Trebesch, China’s Overseas Lending. Selection: estimated stock owed to China by Namibia, by year and instrument, 2000 to 2021. Zeros are estimated zeros (no known loans outstanding), not missing values. Methodology
Against what Namibia reports owing to all creditors
No comparison is possible. Namibia has no row in the World Bank International Debt Statistics table. There is no reported all-creditor stock to measure the China estimate against, so the ratio is n/a, not zero and not a hundred percent. This is a difference in the scope of the two datasets, not evidence of anything hidden. The two-sources page lists every borrower in this position.