根据经合组织编写的报告《发展中国家的外债》中发表的初步数字,到1982年初,发展中国家的外债已达5,250亿美元。1975年末,这一数字为1,800亿美元。其中,非产油发展中国家的外债达4,370亿美元,而1975年末为1,490亿美元。发展中国家的财政状况严重恶化,是1973-1975年世界资本主义经济经历深刻危机, According to preliminary figures published in the OECD report “Foreign debt of developing countries”, by the beginning of 1982, the foreign debt of developing countries had reached 525 billion U.S. dollars. At the end of 1975, this figure was 180 billion U.S. dollars. Among them, the non-oil-producing developing countries have a foreign debt of 4,370 billion U.S. dollars, compared with 149 billion U.S. dollars at the end of 1975. The serious deterioration of the financial status of developing countries is a profound crisis experienced by the capitalist economies in the world during 1973-1975,