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Interest Payments on External Debt, 1984

1984, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1984 covers 84 countries. Jamaica is highest, at 13.4277; Bhutan is lowest, at 0.0260. The middle country reads 2.3506. Against 1983, 83 values changed (52 up, 31 down), 1 country joined.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1984

HighestJamaica

13.4277

LowestBhutan

0.0260

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, 1984, 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 84 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1984: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1JamaicaJAMCaribbean13.4277
2Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa12.4445
3GuyanaGUYSouth America12.3403
4Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia6.5850
5MexicoMEXCentral America6.4940
6BoliviaBOLSouth America6.3279
7EcuadorECUSouth America5.6888
8PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia5.6456
9Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa5.6448
10MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia5.4864
11MoroccoMARNorthern Africa5.4130
12MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia5.4067
13TogoTGOWestern Africa4.7997
14BrazilBRASouth America4.7531
15EgyptEGYNorthern Africa4.5706
16ZambiaZMBEastern Africa4.5491
17MauritiusMUSEastern Africa4.2089
18ArgentinaARGSouth America4.1258
19JordanJORWestern Asia4.1120
20GambiaGMBWestern Africa3.8802
21KenyaKENEastern Africa3.8620
22PeruPERSouth America3.7023
23LiberiaLBRWestern Africa3.5161
24MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa3.4678
25TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa3.3188

02In 1984

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Jamaica13.4277
  2. 2Côte d’Ivoire12.4445
  3. 3Guyana12.3403
  4. 4Papua New Guinea6.5850
  5. 5Mexico6.4940

Lowest

  1. 84Bhutan0.0260
  2. 83Laos0.0710
  3. 82Chad0.0913
  4. 81Guinea0.1674
  5. 80Iran0.2310

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.3506. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031983 → 1984

Since 1983

What changed between 1983 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 83values changed, of 83 in both
  • 52 · 31rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Laos

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 1984.

  • 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 84 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 (1984). Interest Payments on External Debt, 1984 [data set], describing 1984. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/1984

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1984: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 1984?

Jamaica, at 13.4277, of the 84 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1984 describe?

1984.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1984 cover?

84.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 1984?

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, 1984 the newest?

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

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