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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2016

2016, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2016 covers 118 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 7.1878; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0008. The middle country reads 0.8843. Against 2015, 118 values changed (83 up, 35 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2016

HighestMozambique

7.1878

LowestSomalia

0.0008

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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa7.1878
2GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia6.5020
3LebanonLBNWestern Asia5.3294
4AngolaAGOMiddle Africa5.2080
5JamaicaJAMCaribbean5.0970
6MongoliaMNGEastern Asia5.0854
7UkraineUKREastern Europe3.9362
8MontenegroMNESouthern Europe3.7210
9Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia3.3274
10Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa3.2741
11El SalvadorSLVCentral America3.1038
12BelarusBLREastern Europe2.6459
13ArgentinaARGSouth America2.6122
14KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia2.4062
15ZambiaZMBEastern Africa2.3255
16ArmeniaARMWestern Asia2.3240
17BelizeBLZCentral America2.2710
18MauritiusMUSEastern Africa2.2252
19GrenadaGRDCaribbean2.1674
20KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia2.1615
21SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe2.0912
22SurinameSURSouth America2.0697
23South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa2.0178
24NicaraguaNICCentral America2.0140
25DominicaDMACaribbean1.9374

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique7.1878
  2. 2Georgia6.5020
  3. 3Lebanon5.3294
  4. 4Angola5.2080
  5. 5Jamaica5.0970

Lowest

  1. 118Somalia0.0008
  2. 117Syria0.0028
  3. 116Comoros0.0137
  4. 115Algeria0.0305
  5. 114Iran0.0331

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.8843. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 118values changed, of 118 in both
  • 83 · 35rose · 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 2016.

  • 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 (2016). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2016

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2016?

Mozambique, at 7.1878, of the 118 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2016 cover?

118.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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