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Debt Service on External Debt, 1990

1990, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Debt Service on External Debt, 1990 covers 86 countries. Uganda is highest, at 81.36; Saint Lucia is lowest, at 2.21. The middle country reads 18.31. Against 1989, 85 values changed (31 up, 54 down), 1 country joined, 1 left.

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Debt Service on External Debt · Data for 1990

HighestUganda

81.36

LowestSaint Lucia

2.21

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, 1990, 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 86 countries · select a heading to sort

Debt Service on External Debt, 1990: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UgandaUGAEastern Africa81.36
2AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa65.08
3MadagascarMDGEastern Africa45.88
4BurundiBDIEastern Africa43.41
5ColombiaCOLSouth America43.11
6BoliviaBOLSouth America39.37
7EthiopiaETHEastern Africa38.98
8GhanaGHAWestern Africa38.79
9HondurasHNDCentral America38.32
10Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia37.18
11ArgentinaARGSouth America37.14
12Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa35.44
13KenyaKENEastern Africa35.41
14São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa34.85
15Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa34.57
16BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia34.16
17TürkiyeTURWestern Asia33.80
18IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia33.48
19EcuadorECUSouth America33.21
20IndiaINDSouthern Asia32.96
21TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa32.89
22Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa32.28
23MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa30.71
24MalawiMWIEastern Africa29.32
25EgyptEGYNorthern Africa28.59

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uganda81.36
  2. 2Algeria65.08
  3. 3Madagascar45.88
  4. 4Burundi43.41
  5. 5Colombia43.11

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 18.31. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −1countries joined / left
  • 85values changed, of 85 in both
  • 31 · 54rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Yemen− Somalia

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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 1990.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 86 countries has every column.

05The 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 (1990). Debt Service on External Debt, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/debt-service/1990

0643 held

Other years

07Questions

Debt Service on External Debt, 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest external debt service in Debt Service on External Debt, 1990?

Uganda, at 81.36, of the 86 countries in the file.

What year does Debt Service on External Debt, 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does Debt Service on External Debt, 1990 cover?

86.

Where can I download Debt Service on External Debt, 1990?

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, 1990 the newest?

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

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