Interest Payments on External Debt

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: external-debt-interest-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Interest Payments on External Debt: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	112	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	112	0
Interest payments on external debt (% of GNI)external_debt_interestHeadline	The headline figure: Interest payments on external debt (% of GNI).	Number · up to 16 decimals	0.069Iran17.920Mozambiquemiddle 1.451	112	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

The newest 12 of 44 years.

Not in this dataset · 105 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaAustraliaAustriaBahamasBahrainBarbadosBelgiumBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBulgariaCanadaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsChileCook IslandsCosta RicaCroatiaCubaCuraçaoCyprusCzechiaDenmarkEstoniaFaroe IslandsFinlandFranceFrench PolynesiaGermanyGibraltarGreeceGreenlandGuamHong KongHungaryIcelandIrelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyJapanKiribatiKuwaitLatviaLibyaLiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMacauMalaysiaMaltaMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNamibiaNauruNetherlandsNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayOmanPalauPalestinePanamaPolandPortugalPuerto RicoQatarRomaniaRussiaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSlovakiaSloveniaSomalilandSouth KoreaSouth SudanSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTrinidad and TobagoTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUnited States Virgin IslandsUruguayVatican CityVenezuela

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Interest Payments on External Debt 2024

   all

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   44 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as external-debt-interest-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/external-debt-interest

The World Bank's International Debt Statistics (DT.INT.DECT.GN.ZS), read from the debt database itself because the series is not in the World Development Indicators. Years before 1981 cover too few countries and are not imported.

• Charted

  Interest Payments on External Debt by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

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