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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2000

2000, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2000 covers 111 countries. Ecuador is highest, at 8.3190; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0243. The middle country reads 1.1333. Against 1999, 111 values changed (59 up, 52 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2000

HighestEcuador

8.3190

LowestSomalia

0.0243

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, 2000, 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, 2000: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1EcuadorECUSouth America8.3190
2KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia6.2750
3JordanJORWestern Asia5.8897
4Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa5.5557
5MoldovaMDAEastern Europe5.5535
6IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia4.8020
7KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia4.6371
8GuyanaGUYSouth America4.5677
9TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia4.3695
10ArgentinaARGSouth America4.2947
11ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia3.9179
12GabonGABMiddle Africa3.6005
13TajikistanTJKCentral Asia3.5910
14LebanonLBNWestern Asia3.4531
15BelizeBLZCentral America3.3163
16PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia3.2884
17GhanaGHAWestern Africa3.2307
18ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa3.2170
19AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa3.1916
20São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa3.0942
21JamaicaJAMCaribbean3.0622
22CameroonCMRMiddle Africa2.9034
23PeruPERSouth America2.8473
24TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa2.7889
25Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia2.7274

02In 2000

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Ecuador8.3190
  2. 2Kyrgyzstan6.2750
  3. 3Jordan5.8897
  4. 4Côte d’Ivoire5.5557
  5. 5Moldova5.5535

Lowest

  1. 111Somalia0.0243
  2. 110Myanmar0.0503
  3. 109Cambodia0.1573
  4. 108DR Congo0.1590
  5. 107Liberia0.1625

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.1333. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031999 → 2000

Since 1999

What changed between 1999 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 111values changed, of 111 in both
  • 59 · 52rose · 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 2000.

  • 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 (2000). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2000

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2000: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2000?

Ecuador, at 8.3190, of the 111 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2000 describe?

2000.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2000 cover?

111.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2000?

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, 2000 the newest?

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

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