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Interest Payments on External Debt, 1981

1981, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1981 covers 83 countries. Côte d’Ivoire is highest, at 10.462; Bhutan is lowest, at 0.002. The middle country reads 1.723.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1981

HighestCôte d’Ivoire

10.462

LowestBhutan

0.002

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Interest Payments on External Debt, 1981, 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 83 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1981: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa10.462
2GuyanaGUYSouth America8.407
3Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa6.670
4MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia5.967
5NicaraguaNICCentral America5.939
6PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia5.483
7MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia5.412
8JamaicaJAMCaribbean5.399
9MoroccoMARNorthern Africa5.018
10PeruPERSouth America4.846
11EgyptEGYNorthern Africa4.778
12ArgentinaARGSouth America4.487
13BoliviaBOLSouth America4.365
14NigerNERWestern Africa4.253
15AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa4.167
16BrazilBRASouth America4.142
17Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia4.030
18MauritiusMUSEastern Africa4.016
19MexicoMEXCentral America3.853
20MalawiMWIEastern Africa3.762
21LiberiaLBRWestern Africa3.652
22HondurasHNDCentral America3.634
23KenyaKENEastern Africa3.631
24ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia3.404
25GabonGABMiddle Africa3.396

02In 1981

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Lowest

  1. 83Bhutan0.002
  2. 82Chad0.076
  3. 81Cabo Verde0.151
  4. 80Vanuatu0.207
  5. 79Iran0.221

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.723. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method
  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1981.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 83 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1981). Interest Payments on External Debt, 1981 [data set], describing 1981. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/1981

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06Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1981: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 1981?

Côte d’Ivoire, at 10.462, of the 83 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1981 describe?

1981.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1981 cover?

83.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 1981?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Interest Payments on External Debt, 1981 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Interest Payments on External Debt, 2024.

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