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Interest Payments on External Debt, 1990

1990, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1990 covers 91 countries. Guyana is highest, at 41.6233; Cambodia is lowest, at 0.0024. The middle country reads 1.4469. Against 1989, 89 values changed (31 up, 58 down), 2 countries joined.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1990

HighestGuyana

41.6233

LowestCambodia

0.0024

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, 1990, 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 91 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1990: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1GuyanaGUYSouth America41.6233
2JordanJORWestern Asia9.5496
3Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa7.0021
4Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa6.9554
5JamaicaJAMCaribbean6.2783
6Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia5.2226
7GambiaGMBWestern Africa4.2007
8KenyaKENEastern Africa4.0622
9IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia3.9407
10HondurasHNDCentral America3.9223
11TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa3.7664
12ColombiaCOLSouth America3.7330
13PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia3.5598
14AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa3.3882
15EcuadorECUSouth America3.3863
16MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa3.2724
17BoliviaBOLSouth America3.1642
18EgyptEGYNorthern Africa3.1599
19MoroccoMARNorthern Africa3.0251
20MexicoMEXCentral America2.8925
21ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa2.8531
22MadagascarMDGEastern Africa2.7083
23GabonGABMiddle Africa2.5441
24ZambiaZMBEastern Africa2.5358
25ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia2.4143

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Guyana41.6233
  2. 2Jordan9.5496
  3. 3Republic of the Congo7.0021
  4. 4Côte d’Ivoire6.9554
  5. 5Jamaica6.2783

Lowest

  1. 91Cambodia0.0024
  2. 90Sudan0.1086
  3. 89Comoros0.2019
  4. 88Liberia0.2021
  5. 87Chad0.2931

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.4469. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 89values changed, of 89 in both
  • 31 · 58rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Eswatini+ Yemen

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 1990.

  • 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 91 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 (1990). Interest Payments on External Debt, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/1990

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 1990?

Guyana, at 41.6233, of the 91 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1990 cover?

91.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 1990?

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, 1990 the newest?

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

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