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Total IMF Lending Outstanding
IMF credit and loans outstanding to all member countries, $ billions, monthly
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IMF Fund Accounts: use of IMF credit (General Resources Account) plus PRGT and RST loans outstanding. Owed in SDRs, so the dollar figure also moves with exchange rates.
Everything member countries owe the IMF, since the 1940s: it surges in crises and falls as programs are repaid.
What this chart reads
- IMF Credit Outstanding, All Borrowers · USD bn (IMF)as “All borrowers”latest 2026-09-01
Sources
IMF Credit Outstanding, All Borrowers · USD bn (IMF). Source: International Monetary Fund, Fund Accounts (FA), read from the IMF data API (api.imf.org, dataflow IMF.STA/FA). https://data.imf.org/ Attribution: Source: International Monetary Fund. Transformations by Palanor where stated. Transformation by Palanor: the IMF publishes US dollars (indicator CLIMF_USD, Use of IMF Credit and Loans); Palanor divides by one billion. IMF data is available free of charge from the IMF. Use follows the IMF Copyright and Usage terms, Special Terms for Statistical Data (imf.org/en/About/copyright-and-terms).
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