Data for 2024

Debt Service on External Debt, 2024

Name: Debt Service on External Debt, 2024
Creator: World Bank Group
License: https://data.worldbank.org/summary-terms-of-use

2024, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Debt Service on External Debt, 2024 covers 109 countries. El Salvador is highest, at 96.199; Iran is lowest, at 0.285. The middle country reads 12.925. Against 2023, 109 values changed (67 up, 42 down), 5 left.

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Debt Service on External Debt · Data for 2024

HighestEl Salvador

96.199

LowestIran

0.285

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

109countries
1measure
2024the year it describes
109distinct 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, 2024, 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, 2024: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	96.199
2	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	63.163
3	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	49.229
4	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	48.434
5	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	46.510
6	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	43.338
7	Colombia`COL`South America	42.998
8	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	41.805
9	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	39.543
10	Argentina`ARG`South America	38.253
11	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	36.036
12	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	32.042
13	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	31.851
14	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	30.467
15	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	29.801
16	Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	29.415
17	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	28.912
18	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	27.224
19	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	26.815
20	Brazil`BRA`South America	26.744
21	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	26.563
22	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	26.172
23	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	24.728
24	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	24.691
25	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	23.705
26	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	23.432
27	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	22.821
28	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	22.041
29	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	21.914
30	Ecuador`ECU`South America	21.858
31	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	21.394
32	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	21.047
33	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	20.967
34	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	19.042
35	Niger`NER`Western Africa	18.969
36	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	18.150
37	Honduras`HND`Central America	18.116
38	Bolivia`BOL`South America	17.788
39	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	17.345
40	Peru`PER`South America	17.112
41	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	16.619
42	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	16.578
43	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	16.301
44	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	15.832
45	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	15.766
46	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	14.433
47	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	14.421
48	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	13.953
49	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	13.941
50	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	13.824
51	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	13.601
52	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	13.564
53	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	13.397
54	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	13.257
55	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	12.925
56	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	12.624
57	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	12.392
58	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	12.090
59	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	11.538
60	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	11.386
61	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	11.352
62	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	11.092
63	Paraguay`PRY`South America	11.061
64	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	10.835
65	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	10.559
66	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	10.543
67	India`IND`Southern Asia	10.493
68	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	10.470
69	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	10.089
70	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	9.675
71	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	9.562
72	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	9.535
73	Mexico`MEX`Central America	9.520
74	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	9.490
75	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	9.436
76	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	9.185
77	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	9.172
78	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	9.149
79	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	9.034
80	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	8.764
81	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	8.593
82	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	8.482
83	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	8.144
84	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	8.009
85	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	7.974
86	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	7.723
87	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	7.672
88	Belize`BLZ`Central America	7.671
89	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	7.385
90	Kosovo`XKX`Southern Europe	7.178
91	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	7.172
92	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	6.886
93	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	6.514
94	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	6.163
95	Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	4.850
96	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	4.746
97	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	4.718
98	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	4.684
99	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	3.729
100	Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	3.650
101	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	3.467
102	Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	3.051
103	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	2.957
104	Guyana`GUY`South America	2.886
105	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	2.527
106	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	1.321
107	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	0.798
108	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	0.657
109	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	0.285

02In 2024

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1El Salvador96.199
2Haiti63.163
3Egypt49.229
4Kazakhstan48.434
5Mozambique46.510

Lowest

109Iran0.285
108Somalia0.657
107Algeria0.798
106DR Congo1.321
105Djibouti2.527

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 12.925. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032023 → 2024

Since 2023

What changed between 2023 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −5countries joined / left
109values changed, of 109 in both
67 · 42rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Haiti6.362 → 63.163+56.800
Zambia8.224 → 30.467+22.244
Egypt30.391 → 49.229+18.838
El Salvador83.073 → 96.199+13.126
Tonga11.048 → 22.821+11.774

Fell most

Brazil53.543 → 26.744−26.799
Uganda29.968 → 13.941−16.027
Lebanon34.501 → 21.047−13.454
Kyrgyzstan27.401 → 13.953−13.448
Argentina51.362 → 38.253−13.109

− Burundi

− Cameroon

− Suriname

− Chad

− Zimbabwe

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 2024.
The position is ours
World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 109 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 (2024). Debt Service on External Debt, 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/debt-service/2024

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