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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2012

2012, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2012 covers 116 countries. Jamaica is highest, at 4.9446; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0005. The middle country reads 0.6305. Against 2011, 115 values changed (67 up, 48 down), 1 country joined, 1 left.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2012

HighestJamaica

4.9446

LowestSomalia

0.0005

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, 2012, 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 116 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2012: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1JamaicaJAMCaribbean4.9446
2LebanonLBNWestern Asia4.4340
3MontenegroMNESouthern Europe3.5044
4BhutanBTNSouthern Asia3.4314
5MexicoMEXCentral America2.7810
6BelizeBLZCentral America2.7427
7El SalvadorSLVCentral America2.7065
8UkraineUKREastern Europe2.6490
9GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia2.6237
10MongoliaMNGEastern Asia2.3993
11SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe2.3149
12North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe2.1801
13Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa2.1569
14PeruPERSouth America1.9697
15ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa1.8050
16BelarusBLREastern Europe1.7848
17NicaraguaNICCentral America1.7802
18DominicaDMACaribbean1.7708
19Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean1.6555
20TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.6382
21Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa1.5653
22TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa1.5462
23MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa1.5313
24ArmeniaARMWestern Asia1.5159
25AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe1.4882

02In 2012

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Jamaica4.9446
  2. 2Lebanon4.4340
  3. 3Montenegro3.5044
  4. 4Bhutan3.4314
  5. 5Mexico2.7810

Lowest

  1. 116Somalia0.0005
  2. 115Syria0.0018
  3. 114Timor-Leste0.0076
  4. 113Iran0.0239
  5. 112Haiti0.0338

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.6305. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

What changed between 2011 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −1countries joined / left
  • 115values changed, of 115 in both
  • 67 · 48rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Timor-Leste− Eritrea

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 2012.

  • 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 116 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 (2012). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2012

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2012: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2012?

Jamaica, at 4.9446, of the 116 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2012 describe?

2012.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2012 cover?

116.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2012?

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, 2012 the newest?

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

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