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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2004

2004, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2004 covers 111 countries. Lebanon is highest, at 7.2073; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0119. The middle country reads 0.8706. Against 2003, 111 values changed (62 up, 49 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2004

HighestLebanon

7.2073

LowestSomalia

0.0119

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, 2004, 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, 2004: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LebanonLBNWestern Asia7.2073
2BelizeBLZCentral America5.8288
3EcuadorECUSouth America3.8400
4PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia3.6290
5GrenadaGRDCaribbean3.5644
6JamaicaJAMCaribbean3.5384
7JordanJORWestern Asia3.3974
8El SalvadorSLVCentral America3.3227
9DominicaDMACaribbean2.8816
10Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa2.8267
11MoldovaMDAEastern Europe2.6228
12TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa2.4703
13São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa2.3644
14PeruPERSouth America2.3306
15BrazilBRASouth America2.2721
16KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia2.2645
17ColombiaCOLSouth America2.1634
18MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa2.1360
19ParaguayPRYSouth America2.0758
20IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia2.0192
21LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia1.9728
22GuyanaGUYSouth America1.9531
23BurundiBDIEastern Africa1.9234
24TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.8548
25KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia1.8301

02In 2004

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Lebanon7.2073
  2. 2Belize5.8288
  3. 3Ecuador3.8400
  4. 4Philippines3.6290
  5. 5Grenada3.5644

Lowest

  1. 111Somalia0.0119
  2. 110Myanmar0.0254
  3. 109Togo0.0964
  4. 108Botswana0.1475
  5. 107Comoros0.1756

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.8706. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032003 → 2004

Since 2003

What changed between 2003 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 111values changed, of 111 in both
  • 62 · 49rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Zambia3.8106 → 1.3226−2.4880
  • Gabon2.3058 → 0.7315−1.5742
  • Lebanon8.7632 → 7.2073−1.5559
  • Morocco2.3216 → 0.9488−1.3728
  • Guyana3.1241 → 1.9531−1.1710

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 2004.

  • 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 (2004). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2004 [data set], describing 2004. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2004

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2004: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2004?

Lebanon, at 7.2073, of the 111 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2004 describe?

2004.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2004 cover?

111.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2004?

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, 2004 the newest?

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

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