Multilateral and Bilateral creditors are public and publicly guaranteed debt from official creditors.
Bondholders and commercial banks are private creditors.
According to the source, total external debt represents the sum of long-term external debt, short-term debt, and IMF credit. It represents the total debt owed to nonresident
creditors and is repayable in both foreign and domestic currency.
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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 ** billion U.S dollars were held by them. Furthermore, around ** billion U.S. dollars were held by commercial banks and others as unguaranteed debt. On the other hand, public guaranteed debt aggregated over ** billion U.S. dollars (multilateral and bilateral creditors).
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