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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2014

2014, 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, 2014 covers 116 countries. Jamaica is highest, at 4.6942; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0006. The middle country reads 0.6855. Against 2013, 116 values changed (72 up, 44 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2014

HighestJamaica

4.6942

LowestSomalia

0.0006

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, 2014, 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 116 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2014: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1JamaicaJAMCaribbean4.6942
2LebanonLBNWestern Asia4.6596
3UkraineUKREastern Europe4.2008
4MongoliaMNGEastern Asia3.6933
5MontenegroMNESouthern Europe3.2082
6Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa3.0683
7MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa2.9639
8El SalvadorSLVCentral America2.8219
9MauritiusMUSEastern Africa2.6998
10GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia2.6595
11SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe2.5317
12BhutanBTNSouthern Asia2.4108
13BelizeBLZCentral America2.2063
14TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.8506
15ArmeniaARMWestern Asia1.7331
16KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia1.7244
17NicaraguaNICCentral America1.6880
18North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe1.6779
19DominicaDMACaribbean1.6661
20Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia1.5194
21BelarusBLREastern Europe1.4622
22ArgentinaARGSouth America1.4097
23AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe1.3915
24Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean1.3483
25South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa1.3477

02In 2014

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Jamaica4.6942
  2. 2Lebanon4.6596
  3. 3Ukraine4.2008
  4. 4Mongolia3.6933
  5. 5Montenegro3.2082

Lowest

  1. 116Somalia0.0006
  2. 115Syria0.0010
  3. 114Iran0.0087
  4. 113Timor-Leste0.0132
  5. 112Comoros0.0161

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.6855. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032013 → 2014

Since 2013

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 116values changed, of 116 in both
  • 72 · 44rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 2014.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 116 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2014). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2014 [data set], describing 2014. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2014

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