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Interest Payments on External Debt, 1988

1988, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1988 covers 86 countries. Guyana is highest, at 17.131; Cambodia is lowest, at 0.004. The middle country reads 1.890. Against 1987, 86 values changed (43 up, 43 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1988

HighestGuyana

17.131

LowestCambodia

0.004

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, 1988, 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, 1988: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1GuyanaGUYSouth America17.131
2JamaicaJAMCaribbean7.204
3Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa6.908
4JordanJORWestern Asia6.766
5Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa5.253
6Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia5.043
7MexicoMEXCentral America5.000
8PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia4.764
9TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa4.258
10TogoTGOWestern Africa4.173
11IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia4.171
12ColombiaCOLSouth America4.133
13BrazilBRASouth America3.995
14MoroccoMARNorthern Africa3.977
15KenyaKENEastern Africa3.898
16Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean3.631
17TürkiyeTURWestern Asia3.616
18NigerNERWestern Africa3.577
19EgyptEGYNorthern Africa3.526
20AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa3.461
21ParaguayPRYSouth America3.428
22MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa3.306
23EcuadorECUSouth America3.166
24GambiaGMBWestern Africa3.002
25HondurasHNDCentral America2.903

02In 1988

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Guyana17.131
  2. 2Jamaica7.204
  3. 3Republic of the Congo6.908
  4. 4Jordan6.766
  5. 5Côte d’Ivoire5.253

Lowest

  1. 86Cambodia0.004
  2. 85Iran0.236
  3. 84Comoros0.259
  4. 83Bhutan0.271
  5. 82Chad0.285

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.890. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031987 → 1988

Since 1987

What changed between 1987 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 1988.

  • 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 (1988). Interest Payments on External Debt, 1988 [data set], describing 1988. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/1988

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1988: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 1988?

Guyana, at 17.131, of the 86 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1988 describe?

1988.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1988 cover?

86.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 1988?

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, 1988 the newest?

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

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