Debt Service on External Debt

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: debt-service-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Debt Service on External Debt: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	109	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	109	0
Total debt service (% of exports of goods, services and primary income)debt_serviceHeadline	The headline figure: Total debt service (% of exports of goods, services and primary income).	Number · up to 15 decimals	0.285Iran96.199El Salvadormiddle 12.925	109	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

The newest 12 of 43 years.

Not in this dataset · 104 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaAustraliaAustriaBahamasBahrainBarbadosBelgiumBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCanadaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsChileCook IslandsCosta RicaCroatiaCubaCuraçaoCyprusCzechiaDenmarkEquatorial GuineaEstoniaFaroe IslandsFinlandFranceFrench PolynesiaGermanyGibraltarGreeceGreenlandGuamHong KongHungaryIcelandIrelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyJapanKiribatiKuwaitLatviaLibyaLiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMacauMalaysiaMaltaMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNamibiaNauruNetherlandsNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayOmanPalauPalestinePanamaPolandPortugalPuerto RicoQatarRomaniaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSlovakiaSloveniaSomalilandSouth KoreaSouth SudanSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTrinidad and TobagoTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUnited States Virgin IslandsUruguayVatican CityVenezuela

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Debt Service on External Debt 2024

   DT.TDS.DECT.EX.ZS

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 10, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   43 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as debt-service-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/debt-service

From the World Bank’s International Debt Statistics, served through its indicator API (DT.TDS.DECT.EX.ZS). Years before 1982 report fewer than 80 countries and are not imported.