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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2002

2002, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2002 covers 111 countries. Lebanon is highest, at 5.96196; Somalia is lowest, at 0.02439. The middle country reads 1.02537. Against 2001, 111 values changed (44 up, 67 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2002

HighestLebanon

5.96196

LowestSomalia

0.02439

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, 2002, 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, 2002: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LebanonLBNWestern Asia5.96196
2EcuadorECUSouth America4.58877
3GuyanaGUYSouth America4.56163
4BelizeBLZCentral America4.17970
5JamaicaJAMCaribbean3.74561
6GabonGABMiddle Africa3.49421
7DR CongoCODMiddle Africa3.46499
8PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia3.40711
9MoldovaMDAEastern Europe3.39003
10JordanJORWestern Asia3.30963
11GrenadaGRDCaribbean3.24674
12KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia3.07767
13BrazilBRASouth America3.03733
14Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa2.85107
15São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa2.70763
16TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa2.51866
17Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia2.48371
18El SalvadorSLVCentral America2.43984
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia2.42698
20MoroccoMARNorthern Africa2.42134
21PeruPERSouth America2.37503
22ColombiaCOLSouth America2.33217
23MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa2.30414
24ArgentinaARGSouth America2.27941
25TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia2.27450

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Lebanon5.96196
  2. 2Ecuador4.58877
  3. 3Guyana4.56163
  4. 4Belize4.17970
  5. 5Jamaica3.74561

Lowest

  1. 111Somalia0.02439
  2. 110Myanmar0.03481
  3. 109Central African Republic0.08766
  4. 108Liberia0.15269
  5. 107Togo0.15855

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.02537. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 111values changed, of 111 in both
  • 44 · 67rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • DR Congo0.28633 → 3.46499+3.17866
  • Grenada1.52386 → 3.24674+1.72288
  • Laos0.61753 → 2.18362+1.56609
  • Guyana3.06499 → 4.56163+1.49664
  • Lebanon4.51607 → 5.96196+1.44589

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 2002.

  • 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 (2002). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2002

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2002?

Lebanon, at 5.96196, of the 111 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2002 cover?

111.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2002?

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, 2002 the newest?

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

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