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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2006

2006, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2006 covers 113 countries. Lebanon is highest, at 6.8383; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0173. The middle country reads 0.7036. Against 2005, 111 values changed (48 up, 63 down), 2 countries joined.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2006

HighestLebanon

6.8383

LowestSomalia

0.0173

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, 2006, 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 113 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2006: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LebanonLBNWestern Asia6.8383
2JamaicaJAMCaribbean4.5376
3BelizeBLZCentral America4.4685
4El SalvadorSLVCentral America3.8187
5JordanJORWestern Asia3.7190
6EcuadorECUSouth America3.4626
7KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia3.2370
8PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia2.7638
9TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa2.7139
10MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa2.4677
11PeruPERSouth America2.4588
12UkraineUKREastern Europe2.1950
13MoldovaMDAEastern Europe2.1752
14BoliviaBOLSouth America2.1258
15ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa2.0381
16DominicaDMACaribbean1.9993
17AngolaAGOMiddle Africa1.9921
18GuatemalaGTMCentral America1.9412
19TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.8695
20Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe1.8664
21North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe1.8294
22Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean1.8280
23ArgentinaARGSouth America1.8051
24SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe1.8032
25ColombiaCOLSouth America1.6425

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Lebanon6.8383
  2. 2Jamaica4.5376
  3. 3Belize4.4685
  4. 4El Salvador3.8187
  5. 5Jordan3.7190

Lowest

  1. 113Somalia0.0173
  2. 112Afghanistan0.1042
  3. 111Botswana0.1264
  4. 110Myanmar0.1309
  5. 109Liberia0.1406

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.7036. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 111values changed, of 111 in both
  • 48 · 63rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Afghanistan+ Montenegro

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 2006.

  • 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 113 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 (2006). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2006

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2006?

Lebanon, at 6.8383, of the 113 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2006 cover?

113.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2006?

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, 2006 the newest?

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

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