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Interest Payments on External Debt, 1997

1997, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1997 covers 110 countries. Guyana is highest, at 7.9976; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0020. The middle country reads 1.1162. Against 1996, 108 values changed (58 up, 50 down), 2 countries joined.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1997

HighestGuyana

7.9976

LowestSomalia

0.0020

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, 1997, 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 110 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1997: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1GuyanaGUYSouth America7.9976
2GabonGABMiddle Africa5.6645
3JordanJORWestern Asia5.1153
4Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa4.7376
5AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa4.4570
6Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa3.9829
7ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia3.8671
8EcuadorECUSouth America3.7471
9ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa3.7364
10HondurasHNDCentral America3.7302
11NicaraguaNICCentral America3.5147
12KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia3.4202
13IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia3.2122
14MoroccoMARNorthern Africa2.9808
15AngolaAGOMiddle Africa2.8904
16BoliviaBOLSouth America2.7638
17TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia2.7220
18TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa2.7088
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia2.6284
20MoldovaMDAEastern Europe2.5706
21ArgentinaARGSouth America2.5462
22PeruPERSouth America2.4881
23JamaicaJAMCaribbean2.4018
24GhanaGHAWestern Africa2.3868
25Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia2.3163

02In 1997

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Guyana7.9976
  2. 2Gabon5.6645
  3. 3Jordan5.1153
  4. 4Côte d’Ivoire4.7376
  5. 5Algeria4.4570

Lowest

  1. 110Somalia0.0020
  2. 109Liberia0.0369
  3. 108Eritrea0.0739
  4. 107Cambodia0.1110
  5. 106Sudan0.1343

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.1162. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 108values changed, of 108 in both
  • 58 · 50rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Eritrea+ Serbia

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 1997.

  • 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 110 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 (1997). Interest Payments on External Debt, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/1997

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 1997?

Guyana, at 7.9976, of the 110 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1997 cover?

110.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 1997?

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, 1997 the newest?

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

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