Cross-border claims / SWE
Sweden
The banks located here, whoever owns them, held $409.57B of cross-border claims outstanding in Q4 2025: 0.89% of the world total that quarter, the 19th largest of the reporting systems active in it. Its series in the BIS locational statistics runs from Q4 1977 to Q4 2025.
Claims outstanding, Q4 1977–Q4 2025
Total cross-border claims of the banks located here, USD billions, quarterly. Nominal dollars: movements mix changes in positions with changes in the dollar value of non-dollar books, and this BIS cut carries no adjusted-change series to separate them.
Source: BIS Locational Banking Statistics (WS_LBS_D_PUB), BIS Data Portal (data.bis.org). Selection: cross-border claims (measure C, amounts outstanding), reporting country SWE vs all counterparties (5J), quarterly, 1977-Q4 to 2025-Q4. License:free with “Source: BIS” attribution. Methodology
Who these banks lend to
Every counterparty country BIS publishes for this system in Q4 2025: 97 of them, $349.27B in total, which is 85.3% of its published all-countries total. The five largest counterparties are 68% of the named book. 35 of the 97 borrowers are themselves reporting systems in this dataset and link through to their own book; the other 62 appear here only as borrowers.
| # | Counterparty | Claims | Share of named book | Q1 2008 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GBR United Kingdom | $89.33B | 25.6% | $66.60B | +34% |
| 2 | NOR Norway | $54.86B | 15.7% | $50.05B | +10% |
| 3 | USA United States | $33.35B | 9.5% | $12.03B | +177% |
| 4 | FIN Finland | $30.79B | 8.8% | $45.05B | −32% |
| 5 | DNK Denmark | $28.92B | 8.3% | $57.50B | −50% |
| 6 | DEU Germany | $25.79B | 7.4% | $29.01B | −11% |
| 7 | LUX Luxembourg | $20.51B | 5.9% | $3.65B | +463% |
| 8 | CYM Cayman Islands | $12.44B | 3.6% | $10.60B | +17% |
| 9 | IRL Ireland | $11.74B | 3.4% | $6.78B | +73% |
| 10 | FRA France | $11.18B | 3.2% | $9.50B | +18% |
| 11 | GGY Guernsey | $10.54B | 3.0% | $1M | +1054299% |
| 12 | LTU Lithuania | $3.69B | 1.1% | $10.24B | −64% |
| 13 | EST Estonia | $3.41B | 1.0% | $13.89B | −75% |
| 14 | JEY Jersey | $1.95B | 0.6% | $112M | +1642% |
| 15 | POL Poland | $1.58B | 0.5% | $2.54B | −38% |
| 16 | TUR Türkiye | $1.33B | 0.4% | $411M | +223% |
| 17 | CHE Switzerland | $1.22B | 0.3% | $2.57B | −53% |
| 18 | CHN China | $951M | 0.3% | $834M | +14% |
| 19 | BEL Belgium | $753M | 0.2% | $2.98B | −75% |
| 20 | AUT Austria | $705M | 0.2% | $628M | +12% |
| 21 | ESP Spain | $665M | 0.2% | $6.60B | −90% |
| 22 | ITA Italy | $599M | 0.2% | $2.79B | −78% |
| 23 | MEX Mexico | $577M | 0.2% | $423M | +36% |
| 24 | AUS Australia | $245M | 0.1% | $3.30B | −93% |
| 25 | CYP Cyprus | $195M | 0.1% | $409M | −52% |
| 26 | PRT Portugal | $195M | 0.1% | $402M | −52% |
| 27 | KOR Korea | $177M | 0.1% | $7M | +2435% |
| 28 | HKG Hong Kong SAR | $167M | 0.0% | $54M | +209% |
| 29 | IND India | $155M | 0.0% | $821M | −81% |
| 30 | CZE Czechia | $107M | 0.0% | $109M | −2% |
| 31 | FRO Faeroe Islands | $99M | 0.0% | $12M | +727% |
| 32 | PAK Pakistan | $94M | 0.0% | $613M | −85% |
| 33 | ZAF South Africa | $82M | 0.0% | $108M | −24% |
| 34 | EGY Egypt | $63M | 0.0% | $9M | +605% |
| 35 | ETH Ethiopia | $61M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 36 | SRB Serbia | $60M | 0.0% | $1M | +5919% |
| 37 | ZMB Zambia | $51M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 38 | COD Democratic Republic of the Congo | $48M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 39 | GRC Greece | $48M | 0.0% | $152M | −68% |
| 40 | IRQ Iraq | $46M | 0.0% | $9M | +412% |
| 41 | SVK Slovakia | $43M | 0.0% | $49M | −13% |
| 42 | ISR Israel | $42M | 0.0% | $390M | −89% |
| 43 | PER Peru | $40M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 44 | THA Thailand | $33M | 0.0% | $167M | −81% |
| 45 | ROU Romania | $26M | 0.0% | $103M | −75% |
| 46 | MNE Montenegro | $24M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 47 | ARG Argentina | $23M | 0.0% | $63M | −64% |
| 48 | TWN Chinese Taipei | $22M | 0.0% | $1M | +2072% |
| 49 | ISL Iceland | $21M | 0.0% | $218M | −91% |
| 50 | HUN Hungary | $18M | 0.0% | $47M | −62% |
| 51 | TUN Tunisia | $18M | 0.0% | $96M | −82% |
| 52 | BGD Bangladesh | $17M | 0.0% | $47M | −64% |
| 53 | MAR Morocco | $16M | 0.0% | $8M | +100% |
| 54 | NZL New Zealand | $15M | 0.0% | $327M | −95% |
| 55 | JOR Jordan | $12M | 0.0% | $4M | +194% |
| 56 | OMN Oman | $10M | 0.0% | $11M | −5% |
| 57 | MYS Malaysia | $10M | 0.0% | $458M | −98% |
| 58 | LBN Lebanon | $9M | 0.0% | $3M | +206% |
| 59 | IDN Indonesia | $9M | 0.0% | $63M | −85% |
| 60 | UKR Ukraine | $9M | 0.0% | $2.31B | −100% |
| 61 | GEO Georgia | $9M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 62 | KWT Kuwait | $7M | 0.0% | $34M | −79% |
| 63 | RUS Russia | $7M | 0.0% | $4.71B | −100% |
| 64 | SEN Senegal | $7M | 0.0% | $3M | +124% |
| 65 | KEN Kenya | $7M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 66 | ECU Ecuador | $4M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 67 | DZA Algeria | $4M | 0.0% | $58M | −94% |
| 68 | DOM Dominican Republic | $3M | 0.0% | $131M | −98% |
| 69 | UZB Uzbekistan | $3M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 70 | IRN Iran | $3M | 0.0% | $355M | −99% |
| 71 | PHL Philippines | $3M | 0.0% | $126M | −98% |
| 72 | CRI Costa Rica | $2M | 0.0% | $60M | −97% |
| 73 | KAZ Kazakhstan | $2M | 0.0% | $202M | −99% |
| 74 | BHS The Bahamas | $2M | 0.0% | $146M | −99% |
| 75 | CMR Cameroon | $2M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 76 | BGR Bulgaria | $1M | 0.0% | $16M | −92% |
| 77 | LKA Sri Lanka | $1M | 0.0% | $32M | −97% |
| 78 | HRV Croatia | $1M | 0.0% | $8M | −87% |
| 79 | NGA Nigeria | $0.90M | 0.0% | $22M | −96% |
| 80 | BHR Bahrain | $0.78M | 0.0% | $7M | −89% |
| 81 | KHM Cambodia | $0.74M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 82 | SLV El Salvador | $0.57M | 0.0% | $7M | −92% |
| 83 | PRY Paraguay | $0.55M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 84 | BIH Bosnia and Herzegovina | $0.50M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 85 | VEN Venezuela | $0.41M | 0.0% | $27M | −98% |
| 86 | MUS Mauritius | $0.34M | 0.0% | $7M | −95% |
| 87 | NPL Nepal | $0.28M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 88 | NAM Namibia | $0.24M | 0.0% | $8M | −97% |
| 89 | ARM Armenia | $0.06M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 90 | SVN Slovenia | $0.06M | 0.0% | $5M | −99% |
| 91 | MNG Mongolia | $0.05M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 92 | AZE Azerbaijan | $0.03M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 93 | UGA Uganda | $0.03M | 0.0% | $2M | −99% |
| 94 | MKD North Macedonia | $0.01M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 95 | ALB Albania | $0.01M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
| 96 | ZWE Zimbabwe | $0.01M | 0.0% | $2M | −100% |
| 97 | PSE Palestinian Territory | $0.01M | 0.0% | n/a | n/a |
Source: BIS Locational Banking Statistics (WS_LBS_D_PUB), BIS Data Portal (data.bis.org). Selection: cross-border claims (measure C), reporting country SWE vs each individual counterparty country, 2025-Q4, with the same cell at 2008-Q1 where it exists. License:free with “Source: BIS” attribution. Shares are of the sum of this reporter's named counterparty cells, not of its published total, because the two differ. Change is in the nominal USD stock and is not a flow. n/a means the cell does not exist at the earlier date, which is not the same as zero. Methodology
These are residence figures, so this page covers every bank booking here, foreign-owned subsidiaries and branches included, and excludes the foreign books of banks headquartered here but booking abroad. For the other side of the ledger, how much the world’s banks lend to this economy, see its counterparty page. The methodology gives the exact BIS selection behind every figure here.