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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2005

2005, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2005 covers 111 countries. Lebanon is highest, at 6.8656; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0157. The middle country reads 0.7580. Against 2004, 111 values changed (32 up, 79 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2005

HighestLebanon

6.8656

LowestSomalia

0.0157

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, 2005, 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, 2005: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LebanonLBNWestern Asia6.8656
2BelizeBLZCentral America5.4145
3JamaicaJAMCaribbean3.9606
4JordanJORWestern Asia3.4181
5KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia3.3766
6El SalvadorSLVCentral America3.3164
7PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia2.9366
8EcuadorECUSouth America2.8470
9TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa2.7789
10PeruPERSouth America2.5832
11MoldovaMDAEastern Europe2.0941
12DominicaDMACaribbean2.0626
13ColombiaCOLSouth America1.9982
14MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa1.9616
15BoliviaBOLSouth America1.9186
16LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia1.8597
17TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.8051
18UkraineUKREastern Europe1.8024
19GuatemalaGTMCentral America1.8015
20ArgentinaARGSouth America1.7246
21Saint LuciaLCACaribbean1.6612
22SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe1.6360
23KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia1.6217
24São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa1.5676
25ParaguayPRYSouth America1.5500

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Lebanon6.8656
  2. 2Belize5.4145
  3. 3Jamaica3.9606
  4. 4Jordan3.4181
  5. 5Kazakhstan3.3766

Lowest

  1. 111Somalia0.0157
  2. 110Myanmar0.0251
  3. 109Togo0.0650
  4. 108Central African Republic0.0977
  5. 107Botswana0.1440

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.7580. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 111values changed, of 111 in both
  • 32 · 79rose · 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 2005.

  • 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 (2005). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2005

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2005?

Lebanon, at 6.8656, of the 111 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2005 cover?

111.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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