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Interest Payments on External Debt, 1983

1983, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1983 covers 83 countries. Côte d’Ivoire is highest, at 12.2475; Bhutan is lowest, at 0.0058. The middle country reads 2.1673. Against 1982, 83 values changed (46 up, 37 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1983

HighestCôte d’Ivoire

12.2475

LowestBhutan

0.0058

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Interest Payments on External Debt, 1983, 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 83 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1983: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa12.2475
2MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia9.5356
3BoliviaBOLSouth America6.8276
4GuyanaGUYSouth America6.8145
5MexicoMEXCentral America6.8021
6JamaicaJAMCaribbean6.5326
7Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa5.9995
8ArgentinaARGSouth America5.5492
9PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia5.5319
10Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia5.4244
11MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia5.1486
12BrazilBRASouth America5.0405
13MoroccoMARNorthern Africa5.0360
14PeruPERSouth America4.6726
15EgyptEGYNorthern Africa4.6495
16ZambiaZMBEastern Africa4.0862
17MauritiusMUSEastern Africa3.9266
18JordanJORWestern Asia3.7883
19KenyaKENEastern Africa3.7064
20EcuadorECUSouth America3.6953
21TogoTGOWestern Africa3.5100
22NigerNERWestern Africa3.4754
23MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa3.1076
24LiberiaLBRWestern Africa3.0600
25AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa3.0012

02In 1983

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Côte d’Ivoire12.2475
  2. 2Maldives9.5356
  3. 3Bolivia6.8276
  4. 4Guyana6.8145
  5. 5Mexico6.8021

Lowest

  1. 83Bhutan0.0058
  2. 82Chad0.0850
  3. 81Guinea0.1989
  4. 80Rwanda0.2880
  5. 79Saint Lucia0.3194

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.1673. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031982 → 1983

Since 1982

What changed between 1982 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 83values changed, of 83 in both
  • 46 · 37rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1983.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 83 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. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1983). Interest Payments on External Debt, 1983 [data set], describing 1983. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/1983

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1983: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 1983?

Côte d’Ivoire, at 12.2475, of the 83 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1983 describe?

1983.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1983 cover?

83.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 1983?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Interest Payments on External Debt, 1983 the newest?

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

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