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Interest Payments on External Debt, 1985

1985, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

This is what a country pays its foreign creditors in interest each year, as a share of its national income. Where external debt stocks show how much is owed, this shows what the debt costs — money that leaves the country before any of it is repaid.

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1985 covers 85 countries. Jamaica is highest, at 15.8331; Bhutan is lowest, at 0.0222. The middle country reads 2.3634. Against 1984, 84 values changed (40 up, 44 down), 1 country joined.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1985

HighestJamaica

15.8331

LowestBhutan

0.0222

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Interest Payments on External Debt, 1985, 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 85 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1985: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1JamaicaJAMCaribbean15.8331
2GuyanaGUYSouth America14.4764
3Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa12.0309
4Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa8.2977
5ArgentinaARGSouth America6.2325
6Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia6.0379
7MexicoMEXCentral America5.4916
8PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia5.2198
9MoroccoMARNorthern Africa5.1807
10EcuadorECUSouth America5.1529
11JordanJORWestern Asia5.0308
12MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia4.9288
13TogoTGOWestern Africa4.7004
14BrazilBRASouth America4.3253
15MauritiusMUSEastern Africa4.1631
16KenyaKENEastern Africa4.0212
17Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean3.9505
18DR CongoCODMiddle Africa3.9430
19MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa3.8682
20EgyptEGYNorthern Africa3.8482
21PeruPERSouth America3.7073
22ColombiaCOLSouth America3.6908
23NigerNERWestern Africa3.6834
24ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa3.6217
25ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia3.5605

02In 1985

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Jamaica15.8331
  2. 2Guyana14.4764
  3. 3Côte d’Ivoire12.0309
  4. 4Republic of the Congo8.2977
  5. 5Argentina6.2325

Lowest

  1. 85Bhutan0.0222
  2. 84Laos0.0430
  3. 83Guinea0.1208
  4. 82Iran0.1422
  5. 81Chad0.2380

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.3634. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031984 → 1985

Since 1984

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 84values changed, of 84 in both
  • 40 · 44rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Tonga

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 1985.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 85 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (1985). Interest Payments on External Debt, 1985 [data set], describing 1985. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/1985

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