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Debt Service on External Debt, 1982

1982, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Debt Service on External Debt, 1982 covers 81 countries. Brazil is highest, at 82.119; Solomon Islands is lowest, at 0.601. The middle country reads 18.206.

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Debt Service on External Debt · Data for 1982

HighestBrazil

82.119

LowestSolomon Islands

0.601

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Debt Service on External Debt, 1982, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 81 countries · select a heading to sort

Debt Service on External Debt, 1982: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BrazilBRASouth America82.119
2EcuadorECUSouth America78.722
3BoliviaBOLSouth America59.749
4MoroccoMARNorthern Africa58.439
5NigerNERWestern Africa55.618
6Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa54.146
7MexicoMEXCentral America52.536
8ArgentinaARGSouth America50.174
9PeruPERSouth America48.966
10NicaraguaNICCentral America45.820
11PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia43.894
12TürkiyeTURWestern Asia37.442
13MalawiMWIEastern Africa35.026
14Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean34.961
15Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa32.605
16HondurasHNDCentral America32.283
17SudanSDNNorthern Africa32.278
18AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa31.766
19ZambiaZMBEastern Africa31.101
20KenyaKENEastern Africa30.483
21ColombiaCOLSouth America30.460
22MadagascarMDGEastern Africa28.734
23Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa27.726
24MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia27.610
25PakistanPAKSouthern Asia26.950

02In 1982

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Brazil82.119
  2. 2Ecuador78.722
  3. 3Bolivia59.749
  4. 4Morocco58.439
  5. 5Niger55.618

Lowest

  1. 81Solomon Islands0.601
  2. 80Vanuatu0.897
  3. 79Saint Lucia1.423
  4. 78Bulgaria1.712
  5. 77Botswana2.246

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 18.206. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored
  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1982.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 81 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1982). Debt Service on External Debt, 1982 [data set], describing 1982. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/debt-service/1982

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06Questions

Debt Service on External Debt, 1982: questions and answers

Which country has the highest external debt service in Debt Service on External Debt, 1982?

Brazil, at 82.119, of the 81 countries in the file.

What year does Debt Service on External Debt, 1982 describe?

1982.

How many countries does Debt Service on External Debt, 1982 cover?

81.

Where can I download Debt Service on External Debt, 1982?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Debt Service on External Debt, 1982 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Debt Service on External Debt, 2024.

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