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Interest Payments on External Debt, 1998

1998, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1998 covers 110 countries. Guyana is highest, at 9.26366; Somalia is lowest, at 0.00649. The middle country reads 1.12494. Against 1997, 110 values changed (60 up, 50 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1998

HighestGuyana

9.26366

LowestSomalia

0.00649

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, 1998, 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, 1998: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1GuyanaGUYSouth America9.26366
2IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia7.89281
3Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa5.93469
4JordanJORWestern Asia5.78196
5ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa5.33470
6ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia4.51951
7AngolaAGOMiddle Africa4.46907
8GabonGABMiddle Africa4.33882
9AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa4.31242
10EcuadorECUSouth America4.11960
11KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia3.96312
12NicaraguaNICCentral America3.81865
13TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia3.65317
14HondurasHNDCentral America3.54205
15MoldovaMDAEastern Europe3.19083
16ArgentinaARGSouth America3.05595
17Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia2.79049
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia2.70919
19TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa2.68692
20GhanaGHAWestern Africa2.64202
21PeruPERSouth America2.53576
22São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa2.51993
23MoroccoMARNorthern Africa2.46669
24BelizeBLZCentral America2.33139
25CameroonCMRMiddle Africa2.17778

02In 1998

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Guyana9.26366
  2. 2Indonesia7.89281
  3. 3Côte d’Ivoire5.93469
  4. 4Jordan5.78196
  5. 5Zimbabwe5.33470

Lowest

  1. 110Somalia0.00649
  2. 109Sudan0.02526
  3. 108Liberia0.09373
  4. 107Comoros0.11928
  5. 106Cambodia0.13386

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.12494. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031997 → 1998

Since 1997

What changed between 1997 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 110values changed, of 110 in both
  • 60 · 50rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 1998.

  • 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 (1998). Interest Payments on External Debt, 1998 [data set], describing 1998. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/1998

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1998: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 1998?

Guyana, at 9.26366, of the 110 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1998 describe?

1998.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1998 cover?

110.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 1998?

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, 1998 the newest?

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

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