The Boston University Global Development Policy Center posted on 2 December 2020 an analysis titled "Tracking China's Overseas Development Finance" by Rebecca Ray and Blake Alexander Simmons.
The China Overseas Development Finance Database tracks lending commitments by China's two major policy banks, the China Development Bank and the China Export-Import Bank from 2008 to 2019. During this period, China's overseas development finance totaled $462 billion. China's development finance grew significantly from 2011 to 2016 and then fell precipitously.
Just 10 countries made up 60 percent of the total borrowing between 2008 and 2019 with the largest borrower--Venezuela--making up more than 10 percent of the total. African countries accounted for $104.5 billion of the $462 billion or about 23 percent of the global amount. Angola was by far the largest African borrower followed by Kenya and Ethiopia.
The Diplomat published on 12 December 2020 an analysis titled "China's Policy Banks Are Lending Differently, Not Less" by Tristan Kenderdine, Future Risk, and Niva Yau, OSCE Academy in Bishkek.
This account questions the methodology of the Boston University Global Policy Center analysis, although it uses examples from Central Asia.