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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2005

2005, 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, 2005 covers 111 countries. Lebanon is highest, at 6.8656; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0157. The middle country reads 0.7580. Against 2004, 111 values changed (32 up, 79 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2005

HighestLebanon

6.8656

LowestSomalia

0.0157

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, 2005, 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 111 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2005: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LebanonLBNWestern Asia6.8656
2BelizeBLZCentral America5.4145
3JamaicaJAMCaribbean3.9606
4JordanJORWestern Asia3.4181
5KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia3.3766
6El SalvadorSLVCentral America3.3164
7PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia2.9366
8EcuadorECUSouth America2.8470
9TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa2.7789
10PeruPERSouth America2.5832
11MoldovaMDAEastern Europe2.0941
12DominicaDMACaribbean2.0626
13ColombiaCOLSouth America1.9982
14MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa1.9616
15BoliviaBOLSouth America1.9186
16LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia1.8597
17TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.8051
18UkraineUKREastern Europe1.8024
19GuatemalaGTMCentral America1.8015
20ArgentinaARGSouth America1.7246
21Saint LuciaLCACaribbean1.6612
22SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe1.6360
23KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia1.6217
24São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa1.5676
25ParaguayPRYSouth America1.5500

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Lebanon6.8656
  2. 2Belize5.4145
  3. 3Jamaica3.9606
  4. 4Jordan3.4181
  5. 5Kazakhstan3.3766

Lowest

  1. 111Somalia0.0157
  2. 110Myanmar0.0251
  3. 109Togo0.0650
  4. 108Central African Republic0.0977
  5. 107Botswana0.1440

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.7580. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 111values changed, of 111 in both
  • 32 · 79rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

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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 2005.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 111 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2005). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2005

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