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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2006

2006, 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, 2006 covers 113 countries. Lebanon is highest, at 6.8383; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0173. The middle country reads 0.7036. Against 2005, 111 values changed (48 up, 63 down), 2 countries joined.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2006

HighestLebanon

6.8383

LowestSomalia

0.0173

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, 2006, 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 113 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2006: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LebanonLBNWestern Asia6.8383
2JamaicaJAMCaribbean4.5376
3BelizeBLZCentral America4.4685
4El SalvadorSLVCentral America3.8187
5JordanJORWestern Asia3.7190
6EcuadorECUSouth America3.4626
7KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia3.2370
8PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia2.7638
9TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa2.7139
10MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa2.4677
11PeruPERSouth America2.4588
12UkraineUKREastern Europe2.1950
13MoldovaMDAEastern Europe2.1752
14BoliviaBOLSouth America2.1258
15ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa2.0381
16DominicaDMACaribbean1.9993
17AngolaAGOMiddle Africa1.9921
18GuatemalaGTMCentral America1.9412
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.8695
20Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe1.8664
21North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe1.8294
22Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean1.8280
23ArgentinaARGSouth America1.8051
24SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe1.8032
25ColombiaCOLSouth America1.6425

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Lebanon6.8383
  2. 2Jamaica4.5376
  3. 3Belize4.4685
  4. 4El Salvador3.8187
  5. 5Jordan3.7190

Lowest

  1. 113Somalia0.0173
  2. 112Afghanistan0.1042
  3. 111Botswana0.1264
  4. 110Myanmar0.1309
  5. 109Liberia0.1406

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.7036. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 111values changed, of 111 in both
  • 48 · 63rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Afghanistan+ Montenegro

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 2006.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 113 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2006). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2006

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