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Interest Payments on External Debt, 1982

1982, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1982 covers 83 countries. Côte d’Ivoire is highest, at 12.745; Bhutan is lowest, at 0.003. The middle country reads 2.006. Against 1981, 83 values changed (59 up, 24 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1982

HighestCôte d’Ivoire

12.745

LowestBhutan

0.003

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, 1982, 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, 1982: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa12.745
2BoliviaBOLSouth America7.981
3MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia7.822
4GuyanaGUYSouth America7.170
5MexicoMEXCentral America6.476
6NicaraguaNICCentral America6.328
7JamaicaJAMCaribbean6.281
8PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia5.989
9Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa5.692
10Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia5.210
11EcuadorECUSouth America5.136
12PeruPERSouth America4.885
13MoroccoMARNorthern Africa4.826
14MauritiusMUSEastern Africa4.693
15ArgentinaARGSouth America4.524
16NigerNERWestern Africa4.490
17BrazilBRASouth America4.360
18EgyptEGYNorthern Africa4.118
19MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia3.887
20HondurasHNDCentral America3.828
21KenyaKENEastern Africa3.816
22ZambiaZMBEastern Africa3.791
23AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa3.724
24GabonGABMiddle Africa3.541
25MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa3.483

02In 1982

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Côte d’Ivoire12.745
  2. 2Bolivia7.981
  3. 3Maldives7.822
  4. 4Guyana7.170
  5. 5Mexico6.476

Lowest

  1. 83Bhutan0.003
  2. 82Chad0.083
  3. 81Vanuatu0.183
  4. 80Solomon Islands0.236
  5. 79Guinea0.283

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.006. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031981 → 1982

Since 1981

What changed between 1981 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 83values changed, of 83 in both
  • 59 · 24rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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 1982.

  • 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.

05The 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 (1982). Interest Payments on External Debt, 1982 [data set], describing 1982. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/1982

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1982: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 1982?

Côte d’Ivoire, at 12.745, of the 83 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1982 describe?

1982.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1982 cover?

83.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 1982?

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, 1982 the newest?

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

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