Data for 2004

Debt Service on External Debt, 2004

Name: Debt Service on External Debt, 2004
Creator: World Bank Group
License: https://data.worldbank.org/summary-terms-of-use

2004, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Debt Service on External Debt, 2004 covers 100 countries. Burundi is highest, at 134.803; Kosovo is lowest, at 0.312. The middle country reads 9.684. Against 2003, 97 values changed (44 up, 53 down), 3 countries joined, 1 left.

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Debt Service on External Debt · Data for 2004

HighestBurundi

134.803

LowestKosovo

0.312

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

100countries
1measure
2004the year it describes
100distinct values15 decimals, as published
Sep 10, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Debt Service on External Debt, 2004, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Debt Service on External Debt, 2004: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	134.803
2	Belize`BLZ`Central America	61.854
3	Brazil`BRA`South America	48.324
4	Ecuador`ECU`South America	43.994
5	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	40.075
6	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	37.984
7	Colombia`COL`South America	37.890
8	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	34.588
9	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	34.570
10	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	31.641
11	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	30.557
12	Argentina`ARG`South America	29.676
13	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	26.433
14	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	25.467
15	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	22.925
16	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	22.252
17	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	21.255
18	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	20.935
19	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	20.573
20	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	20.045
21	Bolivia`BOL`South America	19.773
22	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	19.283
23	Mexico`MEX`Central America	18.742
24	Peru`PER`South America	18.723
25	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	18.367
26	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	17.870
27	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	17.779
28	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	16.080
29	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	15.899
30	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	15.619
31	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	15.529
32	Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	14.642
33	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	14.594
34	India`IND`Southern Asia	14.504
35	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	14.464
36	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	14.376
37	Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	14.058
38	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	13.630
39	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	12.701
40	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	11.644
41	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	11.411
42	Paraguay`PRY`South America	11.115
43	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	11.112
44	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	10.988
45	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	10.976
46	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	10.699
47	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	10.543
48	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	10.467
49	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	10.458
50	Honduras`HND`Central America	9.953
51	Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	9.416
52	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	9.361
53	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	9.147
54	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	9.051
55	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	9.016
56	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	8.884
57	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	8.854
58	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	8.851
59	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	8.632
60	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	8.613
61	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	8.529
62	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	8.320
63	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	8.283
64	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	8.033
65	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	8.026
66	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	7.927
67	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	7.893
68	Niger`NER`Western Africa	7.211
69	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	7.086
70	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	6.952
71	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	6.932
72	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	6.623
73	Guyana`GUY`South America	6.439
74	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	5.815
75	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	5.674
76	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	5.631
77	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	5.627
78	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	5.524
79	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	5.501
80	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	5.254
81	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	5.210
82	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	4.851
83	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	4.841
84	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	4.557
85	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	4.377
86	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	4.182
87	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	3.726
88	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	3.671
89	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	3.478
90	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	2.776
91	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	2.674
92	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	2.539
93	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	2.214
94	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	2.129
95	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	1.035
96	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	0.831
97	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	0.798
98	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	0.735
99	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	0.431
100	Kosovo`XKX`Southern Europe	0.312

02In 2004

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Burundi134.803
2Belize61.854
3Brazil48.324
4Ecuador43.994
5São Tomé and Príncipe40.075

Lowest

100Kosovo0.312
99Liberia0.431
98Myanmar0.735
97Cambodia0.798
96Fiji0.831

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 9.684. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032003 → 2004

Since 2003

What changed between 2003 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+3 / −1countries joined / left
97values changed, of 97 in both
44 · 53rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Burundi64.200 → 134.803+70.602
Belize29.390 → 61.854+32.464
São Tomé and Príncipe27.197 → 40.075+12.878
Ecuador33.891 → 43.994+10.102
Lebanon26.377 → 34.588+8.211

Fell most

Mongolia34.071 → 3.478−30.593
Zambia43.575 → 22.252−21.323
Brazil67.679 → 48.324−19.355
Colombia52.974 → 37.890−15.084
India29.181 → 14.504−14.676

+ Liberia

+ Samoa

+ Kosovo

− Mozambique

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 2004.
The position is ours
World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 100 countries has every column.

05The files

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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.

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Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2004). Debt Service on External Debt, 2004 [data set], describing 2004. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/debt-service/2004

0643 held

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How it has moved, charted by country

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