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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2015

2015, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2015 covers 118 countries. Jamaica is highest, at 5.0043; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0005. The middle country reads 0.7917. Against 2014, 116 values changed (79 up, 37 down), 2 countries joined.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2015

HighestJamaica

5.0043

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, 2015, 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 118 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2015: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1JamaicaJAMCaribbean5.0043
2LebanonLBNWestern Asia4.7837
3UkraineUKREastern Europe4.7091
4MongoliaMNGEastern Asia4.7081
5GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia4.6947
6Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa4.6038
7MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa4.5372
8MontenegroMNESouthern Europe3.7073
9El SalvadorSLVCentral America3.0119
10Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia2.8541
11SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe2.6427
12MauritiusMUSEastern Africa2.5609
13BelarusBLREastern Europe2.1996
14BelizeBLZCentral America2.1920
15KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia2.1499
16BhutanBTNSouthern Asia2.1389
17IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia2.0596
18ArmeniaARMWestern Asia1.9379
19North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe1.9215
20South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa1.9056
21ColombiaCOLSouth America1.7678
22MexicoMEXCentral America1.7456
23AngolaAGOMiddle Africa1.7332
24NicaraguaNICCentral America1.6826
25KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia1.6523

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Jamaica5.0043
  2. 2Lebanon4.7837
  3. 3Ukraine4.7091
  4. 4Mongolia4.7081
  5. 5Georgia4.6947

Lowest

  1. 118Somalia0.0005
  2. 117Syria0.0036
  3. 116Comoros0.0172
  4. 115Iran0.0194
  5. 114Timor-Leste0.0293

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.7917. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 116values changed, of 116 in both
  • 79 · 37rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Iraq+ Suriname

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 2015.

  • 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 118 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 (2015). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2015

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2015?

Jamaica, at 5.0043, of the 118 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2015 cover?

118.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

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