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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2003

2003, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2003 covers 111 countries. Lebanon is highest, at 8.7632; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0108. The middle country reads 0.9694. Against 2002, 111 values changed (39 up, 72 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2003

HighestLebanon

8.7632

LowestSomalia

0.0108

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, 2003, 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, 2003: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LebanonLBNWestern Asia8.7632
2BelizeBLZCentral America5.5037
3EcuadorECUSouth America4.0347
4ZambiaZMBEastern Africa3.8106
5GrenadaGRDCaribbean3.6170
6JamaicaJAMCaribbean3.5788
7GuyanaGUYSouth America3.1241
8BrazilBRASouth America3.0250
9PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia3.0052
10KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia2.7383
11ColombiaCOLSouth America2.6777
12DominicaDMACaribbean2.6058
13El SalvadorSLVCentral America2.5348
14JordanJORWestern Asia2.5215
15PeruPERSouth America2.4739
16MoldovaMDAEastern Europe2.3546
17TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa2.3229
18MoroccoMARNorthern Africa2.3216
19GabonGABMiddle Africa2.3058
20MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa2.2667
21São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa2.2574
22TürkiyeTURWestern Asia2.1979
23GambiaGMBWestern Africa1.9811
24LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia1.9455
25IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia1.8805

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Lebanon8.7632
  2. 2Belize5.5037
  3. 3Ecuador4.0347
  4. 4Zambia3.8106
  5. 5Grenada3.6170

Lowest

  1. 111Somalia0.0108
  2. 110Myanmar0.0212
  3. 109Central African Republic0.0601
  4. 108Liberia0.1116
  5. 107Togo0.1336

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.9694. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 111values changed, of 111 in both
  • 39 · 72rose · 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 2003.

  • 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 (2003). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2003

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2003: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2003?

Lebanon, at 8.7632, of the 111 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2003 describe?

2003.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2003 cover?

111.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2003?

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, 2003 the newest?

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

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