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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2001

2001, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2001 covers 111 countries. Jordan is highest, at 5.46595; Somalia is lowest, at 0.02497. The middle country reads 1.03244. Against 2000, 111 values changed (30 up, 81 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2001

HighestJordan

5.46595

LowestSomalia

0.02497

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, 2001, 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, 2001: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1JordanJORWestern Asia5.46595
2EcuadorECUSouth America5.36863
3LebanonLBNWestern Asia4.51607
4MoldovaMDAEastern Europe4.49763
5BelizeBLZCentral America4.41490
6GabonGABMiddle Africa4.13376
7PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia3.94672
8IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia3.82241
9JamaicaJAMCaribbean3.67592
10KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia3.52291
11KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia3.49390
12TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia3.33709
13BrazilBRASouth America3.17579
14TürkiyeTURWestern Asia3.14242
15GuyanaGUYSouth America3.06499
16DominicaDMACaribbean2.88390
17ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia2.82655
18ColombiaCOLSouth America2.81422
19Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia2.76575
20PeruPERSouth America2.65874
21São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa2.57835
22Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa2.53530
23AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa2.46045
24TajikistanTJKCentral Asia2.43215
25TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa2.39400

02In 2001

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Jordan5.46595
  2. 2Ecuador5.36863
  3. 3Lebanon4.51607
  4. 4Moldova4.49763
  5. 5Belize4.41490

Lowest

  1. 111Somalia0.02497
  2. 110Myanmar0.03940
  3. 109Liberia0.11422
  4. 108Cambodia0.13813
  5. 107Botswana0.23679

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.03244. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 111values changed, of 111 in both
  • 30 · 81rose · 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 2001.

  • 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 (2001). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2001

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2001: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2001?

Jordan, at 5.46595, of the 111 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2001 describe?

2001.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2001 cover?

111.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2001?

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, 2001 the newest?

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

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