Top 20 Countries Owing China the Most

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Argentina rounds out the list at $2.9 billion, which tells you how steep the climb is from there. Mongolia sits nineteenth at $3.0 billion, then South Africa, Republic of the Congo and Brazil are all clustered at $3.4 billion. Cameroon is fifteenth at $3.8 billion, with Côte d'Ivoire and Belarus tied just above at $3.9 billion. Cambodia comes in twelfth at $4.0 billion, Ecuador eleventh at $4.1 billion, and Nigeria tenth at $4.3 billion. Egypt is ninth at $5.2 billion, Laos eighth at $5.3 billion, then Bangladesh and Zambia both at $6.1 billion. Kenya holds fifth at $6.7 billion, Ethiopia fourth at $6.8 billion, Sri Lanka third at $8.9 billion. Angola is second at $21.0 billion, and Pakistan tops it all at $26.6 billion. Twenty countries ranked by what they owe China, largest first, per World Bank figures accessed through Yahoo Finance.