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Interest Payments on External Debt, 1987

1987, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1987 covers 86 countries. Guyana is highest, at 22.9809; Cambodia is lowest, at 0.0016. The middle country reads 2.0051. Against 1986, 86 values changed (43 up, 43 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1987

HighestGuyana

22.9809

LowestCambodia

0.0016

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, 1987, 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 86 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1987: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1GuyanaGUYSouth America22.9809
2JamaicaJAMCaribbean9.6110
3Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa6.4339
4MexicoMEXCentral America5.9210
5Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa5.8640
6Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia5.4233
7JordanJORWestern Asia5.3465
8PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia4.8887
9MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia4.5365
10ColombiaCOLSouth America4.1404
11TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa4.0896
12IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia4.0707
13MadagascarMDGEastern Africa3.9161
14ArgentinaARGSouth America3.9155
15MoroccoMARNorthern Africa3.8994
16ZambiaZMBEastern Africa3.8598
17KenyaKENEastern Africa3.7887
18NigerNERWestern Africa3.6844
19GambiaGMBWestern Africa3.2768
20MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa3.2241
21ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa3.1884
22ParaguayPRYSouth America3.0416
23TürkiyeTURWestern Asia2.9127
24EcuadorECUSouth America2.9071
25DR CongoCODMiddle Africa2.8105

02In 1987

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Guyana22.9809
  2. 2Jamaica9.6110
  3. 3Côte d’Ivoire6.4339
  4. 4Mexico5.9210
  5. 5Republic of the Congo5.8640

Lowest

  1. 86Cambodia0.0016
  2. 85Iran0.1701
  3. 84Laos0.1773
  4. 83Bhutan0.2438
  5. 82Chad0.3264

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.0051. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031986 → 1987

Since 1986

What changed between 1986 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 86values changed, of 86 in both
  • 43 · 43rose · 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 1987.

  • 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 86 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 (1987). Interest Payments on External Debt, 1987 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/1987

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1987: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 1987?

Guyana, at 22.9809, of the 86 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1987 describe?

1987.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1987 cover?

86.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 1987?

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, 1987 the newest?

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

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