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Interest Payments on External Debt, 1996

1996, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1996 covers 108 countries. Republic of the Congo is highest, at 14.4066; Cambodia is lowest, at 0.0741. The middle country reads 1.1105. Against 1995, 107 values changed (44 up, 63 down), 1 country joined, 1 left.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1996

HighestRepublic of the Congo

14.4066

LowestCambodia

0.0741

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, 1996, 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 108 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1996: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa14.4066
2AngolaAGOMiddle Africa5.8663
3JordanJORWestern Asia5.8110
4GabonGABMiddle Africa5.0080
5GuyanaGUYSouth America4.8483
6AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa4.7535
7Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa4.5864
8HondurasHNDCentral America3.7927
9ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa3.6234
10EcuadorECUSouth America3.5594
11MoroccoMARNorthern Africa3.2742
12PeruPERSouth America3.1845
13TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa3.0102
14IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia3.0044
15JamaicaJAMCaribbean2.9866
16ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia2.9253
17ZambiaZMBEastern Africa2.7929
18MexicoMEXCentral America2.7848
19BoliviaBOLSouth America2.5671
20CameroonCMRMiddle Africa2.4836
21TürkiyeTURWestern Asia2.4827
22KenyaKENEastern Africa2.3134
23ArgentinaARGSouth America2.3116
24MaliMLIWestern Africa2.2769
25GhanaGHAWestern Africa2.2321

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Republic of the Congo14.4066
  2. 2Angola5.8663
  3. 3Jordan5.8110
  4. 4Gabon5.0080
  5. 5Guyana4.8483

Lowest

  1. 108Cambodia0.0741
  2. 107Tajikistan0.0848
  3. 106Sudan0.1417
  4. 105Comoros0.1623
  5. 104Somalia0.1927

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.1105. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −1countries joined / left
  • 107values changed, of 107 in both
  • 44 · 63rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Tajikistan− Eritrea

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 1996.

  • 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 108 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 (1996). Interest Payments on External Debt, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/1996

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 1996?

Republic of the Congo, at 14.4066, of the 108 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1996 cover?

108.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 1996?

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, 1996 the newest?

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

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