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As of March 31, 2025, the top five countries accounted for 57% of total IMF credit outstanding
Key Takeaways:  
  • Argentina tops the list with SDR 31.1 billion in outstanding IMF credit.
  • The top three borrowers, Argentina, Ukraine, and Egypt, together hold over 45% of total IMF credit.
  • All 15 countries on the list have outstanding credit of at least SDR 1.4 billion.
  • African nations such as Kenya, Angola, Ghana, and Ethiopia rank among the top 15 IMF debtors.
  • The top 10 countries alone account for more than two-thirds of the IMF’s total outstanding credit.

Population of people in need of humanitarian assistance in 2025 - Top 15 countries
Key takeaways:  
  • Most countries can only target 50-70% of their populations in need.
  • Sudan has the greatest humanitarian requirements, with 30.44 million people affected, and it is projected that only 69% will receive help, leaving 10 million individuals unsupported.
  • Myanmar exhibits the largest gap, with over 19.9 million people in need and only 5.5 million targeted for assistance.
  • The situation in Ukraine leaves nearly 7 million individuals without adequate assistance while targeting approximately 6 million individuals.

UN 2025 requirements for addressing humanitarian crisis across affected countries
Key takeaways:
  • Sudan requires the largest amount of humanitarian assistance, exceeding $4.16 billion.
  • The Syrian Arab Republic is second on the list of recipients, requiring $4 billion in humanitarian aid.
  • A total of eleven top countries are set to receive over $1 billion each in support, with the leading six countries requiring more than $2.4 billion each.
  • The top ten countries account for over 75% of total global humanitarian needs, which exceeds $32 billion.

Top countries by population in need of humanitarian aid in 2025
Key takeaways:
  • The crisis in Ukraine, affecting about 12.7 million people, represents 5.13% of the global humanitarian needs.
  • The top eleven nations account for more than 70% of global humanitarian demands, with over 177 million individuals requiring aid.
  • Sudan has the highest number of individuals requiring assistance (30.4 million), which is 12.29% of the total global figure.
  • Both Nigeria and Chad report 7.8 million individuals in need, which is 3.15% of the total global humanitarian need.

As of June 26, 2024, 95 countries owed the IMF $111.6 billion
Argentina, Egypt, and Ukraine were the IMF’s top three debtors as of June 26, 2024, accounting for $51 billion (46%) of the total debt. Egypt, Angola, and Kenya occupy the top three spots in Africa on the IMF’s debtors’ list. As of December 2023, Kenya's public debt stood at Ksh11.14 trillion (approximately $76.8 billion). By June 2024, its debt to the IMF had increased by 245% from $744 million in August 2020. This increase has coincided with protests in Kenya, where citizens opposed a proposed finance bill aiming to raise additional taxes to reduce the budget deficit and state borrowing.

Indians had the most Canadian work permits with a 32% share; Nigeria was among the top ten as of December 2023
As of December 2023, Indians accounted for one in three holders of Canadian work permits, representing 32% of the total (1.76 million). Ukraine followed with almost 10%. Nigeria came 8th, with 2% of the permit holders.  


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