54 Countries
Granular records of every African sovereign borrower.
Coverage Highlights
Key facts that capture the scale and breadth of the African Debt Database.
2000 - Present
Tracking more than two decades of loans and securities issuance.
All Currencies & Markets
Instrument-level data across domestic and external borrowing.
Media
Nov 2025: The Economist : Africa's Other Debt Crisis
Nov 2025: VoxDev : Africa’s Domestic Debt Boom: New Evidence from the African Debt Database
Nov 2025: Agence Ecofin (French content) — Les pays africains ont triplé leurs émissions de dette intérieure
Oct 2025: VoxEU : Africa’s Domestic Debt Boom: New Evidence from the African Debt Database
Oct 2025: REDD Intelligence : New database maps Africa’s booming domestic debt markets
Oct 2025: Kiel Institut : New Database Brings Transparency to Africa's Public Debt
The African Debt Database
The African Debt Database (ADD) is a comprehensive resource tracing both domestic and external sovereign debt instruments at a granular level.
Pan-African Scope
The database covers more than 50,000 individual government loans and securities issued by 54 African countries between 2000 and 2024, amounting to USD 6.3 trillion in debt.
Rich Instrument Detail
Each instrument harmonizes micro-level information on currency, maturity, interest rate, instrument type, and creditor to support transparent comparisons.