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Interest Payments on External Debt, 1993

1993, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1993 covers 106 countries. Guyana is highest, at 11.449170; Somalia is lowest, at 0.027268. The middle country reads 1.057907. Against 1992, 97 values changed (37 up, 60 down), 9 countries joined.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1993

HighestGuyana

11.449170

LowestSomalia

0.027268

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, 1993, 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 106 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1993: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1GuyanaGUYSouth America11.449170
2NicaraguaNICCentral America5.328923
3Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa5.262152
4ZambiaZMBEastern Africa5.022867
5KenyaKENEastern Africa4.917670
6JordanJORWestern Asia4.903465
7MoroccoMARNorthern Africa4.339285
8ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa4.250835
9LiberiaLBRWestern Africa4.071456
10JamaicaJAMCaribbean3.824584
11Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia3.704531
12AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa3.703709
13TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa3.673762
14HondurasHNDCentral America3.558841
15PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia3.420768
16PeruPERSouth America3.390330
17IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia3.257170
18MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa2.866784
19AngolaAGOMiddle Africa2.831539
20MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia2.778475
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa2.631821
22MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa2.621395
23BoliviaBOLSouth America2.554958
24Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa2.527574
25Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa2.496430

02In 1993

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Guyana11.449170
  2. 2Nicaragua5.328923
  3. 3Côte d’Ivoire5.262152
  4. 4Zambia5.022867
  5. 5Kenya4.917670

Lowest

  1. 106Somalia0.027268
  2. 105Kazakhstan0.039604
  3. 104Tajikistan0.051245
  4. 103Moldova0.051677
  5. 102Turkmenistan0.053626

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.057907. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031992 → 1993

Since 1992

What changed between 1992 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −0countries joined / left
  • 97values changed, of 97 in both
  • 37 · 60rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Liberia0.183460 → 4.071456+3.887996
  • Peru1.332941 → 3.390330+2.057389
  • Myanmar1.071978 → 2.778475+1.706497
  • Kenya3.315254 → 4.917670+1.602416
  • Iran0.732839 → 2.219910+1.487071

Fell most

  • Guyana18.638235 → 11.449170−7.189065
  • Gabon6.091490 → 2.296893−3.794597
  • Morocco7.199149 → 4.339285−2.859864
  • Jamaica6.617124 → 3.824584−2.792540
  • Paraguay3.872534 → 1.294064−2.578470
+ Armenia+ Belarus+ Georgia+ Kazakhstan+ Kyrgyzstan+ Moldova+ North Macedonia+ Tajikistan+ Turkmenistan

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 1993.

  • 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 106 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 (1993). Interest Payments on External Debt, 1993 [data set], describing 1993. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/1993

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1993: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 1993?

Guyana, at 11.449170, of the 106 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1993 describe?

1993.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1993 cover?

106.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 1993?

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, 1993 the newest?

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

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