Data for 1981
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.
Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1981
HighestCôte d’Ivoire
10.462LowestBhutan
0.002Shaded 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
| derived | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10.462 | |
| 2 | 8.407 | |
| 3 | 6.670 | |
| 4 | 5.967 | |
| 5 | 5.939 | |
| 6 | 5.483 | |
| 7 | 5.412 | |
| 8 | 5.399 | |
| 9 | 5.018 | |
| 10 | 4.846 | |
| 11 | 4.778 | |
| 12 | 4.487 | |
| 13 | 4.365 | |
| 14 | 4.253 | |
| 15 | 4.167 | |
| 16 | 4.142 | |
| 17 | 4.030 | |
| 18 | 4.016 | |
| 19 | 3.853 | |
| 20 | 3.762 | |
| 21 | 3.652 | |
| 22 | 3.634 | |
| 23 | 3.631 | |
| 24 | 3.404 | |
| 25 | 3.396 | |
| 26 | 3.280 | |
| 27 | 3.246 | |
| 28 | 3.093 | |
| 29 | 2.940 | |
| 30 | 2.924 | |
| 31 | 2.858 | |
| 32 | 2.840 | |
| 33 | 2.822 | |
| 34 | 2.693 | |
| 35 | 2.378 | |
| 36 | 2.341 | |
| 37 | 2.213 | |
| 38 | 2.132 | |
| 39 | 2.097 | |
| 40 | 2.070 | |
| 41 | 2.029 | |
| 42 | 1.723 | |
| 43 | 1.712 | |
| 44 | 1.650 | |
| 45 | 1.621 | |
| 46 | 1.565 | |
| 47 | 1.384 | |
| 48 | 1.373 | |
| 49 | 1.352 | |
| 50 | 1.339 | |
| 51 | 1.218 | |
| 52 | 1.023 | |
| 53 | 0.932 | |
| 54 | 0.870 | |
| 55 | 0.809 | |
| 56 | 0.800 | |
| 57 | 0.769 | |
| 58 | 0.741 | |
| 59 | 0.699 | |
| 60 | 0.683 | |
| 61 | 0.634 | |
| 62 | 0.629 | |
| 63 | 0.543 | |
| 64 | 0.526 | |
| 65 | 0.444 | |
| 66 | 0.443 | |
| 67 | 0.422 | |
| 68 | 0.419 | |
| 69 | 0.407 | |
| 70 | 0.391 | |
| 71 | 0.385 | |
| 72 | 0.381 | |
| 73 | 0.370 | |
| 74 | 0.367 | |
| 75 | 0.286 | |
| 76 | 0.275 | |
| 77 | 0.262 | |
| 78 | 0.243 | |
| 79 | 0.221 | |
| 80 | 0.207 | |
| 81 | 0.151 | |
| 82 | 0.076 | |
| 83 | 0.002 |
02In 1981
At either end
The 5 countries at each end of the headline.
Highest
- 1
Côte d’Ivoire10.462
- 2
Guyana8.407
- 3
Republic of the Congo6.670
- 4
Maldives5.967
- 5
Nicaragua5.939
Lowest
- 83
Bhutan0.002
- 82
Chad0.076
- 81
Cabo Verde0.151
- 80
Vanuatu0.207
- 79
Iran0.221
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.
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
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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.
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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.