3.3 billion people live in countries that spend more on 負債 利益／興味 than education, UN says
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Some 3.3 billion people - almost half of humanity - now live in countries that spend more money 支払う／賃金ing 利益／興味 on their 負債s than on education or health, によれば a new U.N. 報告（する）／憶測 解放（する）d Wednesday.
U.N. 長官-General Antonio Guterres told a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 開始する，打ち上げるing the 報告（する）／憶測 that because this "鎮圧するing 負債 危機" is concentrated mostly in poor 発展途上国s, it is "not 裁判官d to 提起する／ポーズをとる a systemic 危険 to the 全世界の 財政上の system."
"This is a しん気楼," the U.N. 長，指導者 警告するd. "3.3 billion people is more than a systemic 危険, it is a systemic 失敗."
Guterres said 財政上の markets may seem not to be 苦しむing yet - but billions of people are and the levels of public 負債 "are staggering and 殺到するing."
"In 2022, 全世界の public 負債 reached a 記録，記録的な／記録する $92 一兆 and 発展途上国s shoulder a disproportionate 量," he said.
によれば the 報告（する）／憶測, the number of countries 直面するing high 負債 levels has 増加するd はっきりと from 22 nations in 2011 to 59 in 2022.
FILE - Tunisian health 労働者s …に出席する a 抗議する as part of a general strike by public servants 組織するd by labor unions, 需要・要求するing 支払う／賃金 raises and more 政府 support in Tunis, on June 18, 2020. Some 3.3 billion people - almost half of humanity - now live in countries that spend more money 支払う／賃金ing 利益／興味 on their 負債s than on education or health, によれば a new U.N. 報告（する）／憶測 解放（する）d Wednesday July 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, とじ込み／提出する)
The 長官-general said a growing 株 of 負債 is held by 私的な creditors who 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 sky-高金利s to 発展途上国s. As an example, he 特記する／引用するd African countries that on 普通の／平均（する） 支払う／賃金 four times more for borrowing than the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs and eight times more than the wealthiest European countries.
The 負債 危機 is leaving 政府s with no money to 投資する in lagging U.N. 開発 goals for 2030 that 含む ending extreme poverty; 確実にするing that every child has a good-質 最初の／主要な and 第２位 school education, and to 投資する in 移行ing to renewable energy, he said.
The 報告（する）／憶測 says public 負債 has reached "colossal levels" 大部分は 予定 to two factors: First, countries´ 財政上の needs 急に上がる ed as they tried to fend off the 衝撃 of cascading crises 含むing the COVID-19 pandemic, the rising cost of living and 気候 change, and second, the 全世界の 財政上の architecture "makes 発展途上国s´ 接近 to 財政／金融ing 不十分な and expensive."
The International 通貨の 基金 says 36 countries are on "いわゆる `負債 列／漕ぐ／騒動´ - either in, or at high 危険 of 負債 苦しめる," Guterres told reporters. "Another 16 are 支払う／賃金ing unsustainable 利益／興味 率s to 私的な creditors (and) a total of 52 countries - almost 40% of the developing world - are in serious 負債 trouble."
U.N. 貿易（する） 長，指導者 Rebeca Grynspan 強調する／ストレスd "the sheer magnitude and 速度(を上げる） at which public 負債 has grown," pointing to a more than fivefold 殺到する since 2000, "意味ありげに より勝るing 全世界の GDP growth that has only ３倍になるd in the same period."
Regionally, between 2010 and 2022, the 量 of 政府 負債 増加するd by almost four times in Asia and the 太平洋の, three times in Africa, 2.5 times in Europe and Central Asia, and 1.6 times in Latin America and the Caribbean, Armida Alisjahbana, (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 長官 of the U.N. 経済的な and Social （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 for Asia and the 太平洋の, told reporters.
The 報告（する）／憶測 by the U.N. 全世界の 危機 返答 Group 始める，決めるs out a roadmap to 全世界の 財政上の 安定 含むing major 改革（する）s to the 全世界の 財政上の architecture, 特に the 国際通貨基金 and World Bank. It also 含むs a new "機械装置" to 取り組む 負債s that 含むs 一時停止するing 支払い（額）s, longer lending 条件, and lower 利益／興味 率s 含むing for 攻撃を受けやすい middle-income countries.
Grynspan told reporters by ビデオ from Geneva that a new 機械装置 is 批判的に needed to 再編する 負債 much faster. 現在／一般に, it can （問題を）取り上げる to 2 ? years, she said.
Guterres said an 近づいている 首脳会議 of the world´s 20 wealthiest nations in India on Sept. 9-10 is an 適切な時期 to take 活動／戦闘 on 負債 救済 and other needed 財政上の 改革（する）s.
FILE - A public school student …に出席するs a math class on the first day 支援する to school after the Christmas holiday, in the Cota 905 近隣 of Carac as, Venezuela, on Jan. 12, 2022. Some 3.3 billion people - almost half of humanity - now live in countries that spend more money 支払う／賃金ing 利益／興味 on their 負債s than on education or health, によれば a new U.N. 報告（する）／憶測 解放（する）d Wednesday July 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, とじ込み／提出する)
FILE - 左派の（人） groups 抗議する against the 政府's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to reach an 協定 with the International 通貨の 基金 (国際通貨基金) to refinance more than $40 billion in 負債 in Buenos 空気／公表するs, Argentina, on Feb. 8, 2022. Some 3.3 billion people - almost half of humanity - now live in countries that spend more money 支払う／賃金ing 利益／興味 on their 負債s than on education or health, によれば a new U.N. 報告（する）／憶測 解放（する）d Wednesday July 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, とじ込み／提出する)
