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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2024

2024, 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, 2024 covers 112 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 17.920; Iran is lowest, at 0.069. The middle country reads 1.451. Against 2023, 112 values changed (55 up, 57 down), 5 left.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2024

HighestMozambique

17.920

LowestIran

0.069

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, 2024, 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 112 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2024: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa17.920
2MongoliaMNGEastern Asia12.633
3AngolaAGOMiddle Africa5.825
4SenegalSENWestern Africa5.602
5JamaicaJAMCaribbean5.207
6LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia4.890
7JordanJORWestern Asia4.851
8MontenegroMNESouthern Europe4.824
9El SalvadorSLVCentral America4.557
10SurinameSURSouth America4.426
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia4.046
12MauritiusMUSEastern Africa3.643
13KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia3.566
14Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean3.374
15TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa3.341
16ParaguayPRYSouth America3.305
17MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia3.143
18FijiFJIMelanesia2.980
19North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe2.969
20UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia2.964
21KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia2.951
22DominicaDMACaribbean2.868
23BelarusBLREastern Europe2.826
24ArmeniaARMWestern Asia2.814
25NigeriaNGAWestern Africa2.692

02In 2024

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique17.920
  2. 2Mongolia12.633
  3. 3Angola5.825
  4. 4Senegal5.602
  5. 5Jamaica5.207

Lowest

  1. 112Iran0.069
  2. 111Haiti0.100
  3. 110Somalia0.104
  4. 109Algeria0.105
  5. 108Sudan0.132

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.451. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032023 → 2024

Since 2023

  • +0 / −5countries joined / left
  • 112values changed, of 112 in both
  • 55 · 57rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Afghanistan− Bhutan− Lebanon− Syria− 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 2024.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 112 countries has every column.

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World Bank Group (2024). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2024

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