Nigeria, Nov. 7 -- Nigeria's total external debt stock rose to $145.02 billion in 2025, representing a 6.6 per cent increase from the previous year, according to the World Bank.

The private non-guaranteed and short-term obligations accounted for more than half of the country's external debt.

This is contained in the World Bank's International Debt Report 2026 showing that Nigeria's external debt increased from $83.21 billion in 2015 to $145.015 billion in 2025, a 74.3 per cent increase in 10 years.

Nigeria's profile showed that public and publicly guaranteed debt accounted for $62.4 billion of the total, while private non-guaranteed debt stood at $54.476 billion. Short-term external debt accounted for another $28.139 billion.

This imp...