Foreign debt stock in South Africa 2020, by creditor type
Private bondholders with guaranteed debt held the largest value of South African external debt in 2020. As of that year, nearly 80 billion U.S dollars were held by them. Furthermore, around 34 billion U.S. dollars were held by commercial banks and others as unguaranteed debt. On the other hand, public guaranteed debt aggregated over 10 billion U.S. dollars (multilateral and bilateral creditors).