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Report year 1997Data year 1997
Total debt service (% of exports of goods, services and primary income)Higher is worse — rank 1 is worst affectedPublished by World Bank Group
43 reference years (1982–2024), covering 81 to 117 countries, from the World Bank’s International Debt Statistics and served through its indicator API (DT.TDS.DECT.EX.ZS). What servicing external debt costs each year — principal and interest — as a share of everything a country earns from abroad. External debt STOCKS are already on the site: stocks show the size of the burden, this shows the annual squeeze, and the second is what actually competes with a budget for schools and clinics. ⚠ REPORTING COUNTRIES ONLY. International Debt Statistics covers low- and middle-income borrowers, so most high-income countries are absent BY DESIGN rather than debt-free, and this table is not a world ranking. ⚠ Years before 1982 report fewer than 80 countries and are not imported. ⚠ No rank is published, so none is stored or derived.
Debt Service on External Debt 1997 — World Bank Group
Cite as: World Bank. International Debt Statistics. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
What servicing external debt costs each year — principal and interest — as a share of everything a country earns from abroad, from the World Bank's International Debt Statistics via its indicator API (DT.TDS.DECT.EX.ZS). External debt stocks are already on the site: stocks show the size of the burden, this shows the annual squeeze, and the second is what actually competes with a budget for schools. ⚠ REPORTING COUNTRIES ONLY — International Debt Statistics covers low- and middle-income borrowers, so most high-income countries are absent by design rather than debt-free. No rank is published, so none is stored or derived.
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