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Interest Payments on External Debt, 1991

1991, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1991 covers 94 countries. Guyana is highest, at 24.8538; Cambodia is lowest, at 0.0017. The middle country reads 1.1995. Against 1990, 91 values changed (33 up, 58 down), 3 countries joined.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1991

HighestGuyana

24.8538

LowestCambodia

0.0017

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, 1991, 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 94 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1991: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1GuyanaGUYSouth America24.8538
2NicaraguaNICCentral America17.6916
3ZambiaZMBEastern Africa10.1793
4JordanJORWestern Asia10.1688
5Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa7.2538
6JamaicaJAMCaribbean6.5820
7AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa4.5120
8Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa4.2200
9IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia4.1582
10KenyaKENEastern Africa4.1161
11GabonGABMiddle Africa4.0308
12Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia3.9779
13HondurasHNDCentral America3.7730
14MoroccoMARNorthern Africa3.7282
15TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa3.5168
16ColombiaCOLSouth America3.2846
17EcuadorECUSouth America3.1833
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia3.1498
19ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa2.9163
20BoliviaBOLSouth America2.7462
21ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia2.7398
22MexicoMEXCentral America2.6900
23MadagascarMDGEastern Africa2.4867
24MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia2.4356
25EgyptEGYNorthern Africa2.3634

02In 1991

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Guyana24.8538
  2. 2Nicaragua17.6916
  3. 3Zambia10.1793
  4. 4Jordan10.1688
  5. 5Côte d’Ivoire7.2538

Lowest

  1. 94Cambodia0.0017
  2. 93Somalia0.0059
  3. 92Sudan0.0263
  4. 91Albania0.2565
  5. 90Laos0.3162

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.1995. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031990 → 1991

Since 1990

What changed between 1990 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 91values changed, of 91 in both
  • 33 · 58rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Djibouti+ Mozambique

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 1991.

  • 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 94 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 (1991). Interest Payments on External Debt, 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/1991

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1991: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 1991?

Guyana, at 24.8538, of the 94 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1991 describe?

1991.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1991 cover?

94.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 1991?

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, 1991 the newest?

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

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