Chinese Loans to Africa Database

The Chinese Loans to Africa (CLA) Database is an interactive data project tracking loan commitments from Chinese development finance institutions, commercial banks, government entities and companies to African governments, state-owned enterprises and regional multilateral institutions.
Starting in 2007, researchers have collected, cleaned and analyzed publicly available data to create a database on Chinese lending to Africa. The data sources include official government documents, contractor websites, fieldwork, interviews and media sources.
The CLA Database estimates that from 2000-2023, 41 Chinese lenders signed 1,306 loan commitments amounting to $182.28 billion with 49 African governments and seven regional institutions. CLA Database loan amounts are not equivalent to African government debt, as the database tracks commitments, and not disbursement, repayments or defaults.
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