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Interest Payments on External Debt, 1999

1999, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1999 covers 111 countries. Ecuador is highest, at 6.4041; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0574. The middle country reads 1.2172. Against 1998, 110 values changed (66 up, 44 down), 1 country joined.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 1999

HighestEcuador

6.4041

LowestSomalia

0.0574

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, 1999, 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 111 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1999: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1EcuadorECUSouth America6.4041
2GabonGABMiddle Africa6.2947
3GuyanaGUYSouth America5.9385
4ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia5.5361
5MoldovaMDAEastern Europe5.3250
6Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa5.2762
7KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia4.7929
8IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia4.6141
9TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia4.5368
10ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa3.9837
11AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa3.9196
12ArgentinaARGSouth America3.8128
13AngolaAGOMiddle Africa3.6127
14ColombiaCOLSouth America3.1631
15JordanJORWestern Asia3.1528
16BrazilBRASouth America3.0583
17PeruPERSouth America2.9878
18HondurasHNDCentral America2.9171
19ZambiaZMBEastern Africa2.8922
20LebanonLBNWestern Asia2.8575
21TajikistanTJKCentral Asia2.8214
22Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe2.7092
23TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa2.6542
24MoroccoMARNorthern Africa2.5885
25PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia2.5155

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Ecuador6.4041
  2. 2Gabon6.2947
  3. 3Guyana5.9385
  4. 4Thailand5.5361
  5. 5Moldova5.3250

Lowest

  1. 111Somalia0.0574
  2. 110Cambodia0.1553
  3. 109Sudan0.1581
  4. 108Serbia0.2121
  5. 107Comoros0.2498

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.2172. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 110values changed, of 110 in both
  • 66 · 44rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina

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 1999.

  • 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 111 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 (1999). Interest Payments on External Debt, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/1999

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 1999?

Ecuador, at 6.4041, of the 111 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 1999 cover?

111.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 1999?

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, 1999 the newest?

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

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