从1973年起,由于石油涨价,资本主义世界经济长期停滞,发展中国家原料出口跌价,国际收支逆差日益严重,再加上西方通貨膨胀,使第三世界国家所欠外债越积越多.1972年100多个发展中国家的长期外债总额为870亿美元,1980年激增至約6000亿美元,1987年高达1.19亿美元. 70年代无力还债还是个别现象,到80年代则成为普遍现象.于是,便于1982年爆发了席卷全球的国际债务危机. Since 1973, due to the rise in oil prices, the capitalist world economy has stagnated for a long time, raw material exports from developing countries have fallen, and the balance of payments deficits have become increasingly severe. Coupled with the inflation in the West, the external debt owed by third world countries has accumulated. In 1972, the total long-term foreign debt of more than 100 developing countries was 87 billion U.S. dollars, and it surged to about 600 billion U.S. dollars in 1980 and up to 119 million U.S. dollars in 1987. The inability to repay debts in the 1970s was an isolated phenomenon, and it became a common phenomenon in the 1980s. As a result, the global debt crisis that engulfed the world broke out in 1982.