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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2017

2017, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2017 covers 118 countries. Mongolia is highest, at 9.2080; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0005. The middle country reads 0.8905. Against 2016, 118 values changed (61 up, 57 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2017

HighestMongolia

9.2080

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MongoliaMNGEastern Asia9.2080
2MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa8.7531
3LebanonLBNWestern Asia5.6482
4JamaicaJAMCaribbean4.6886
5MontenegroMNESouthern Europe4.2272
6SurinameSURSouth America3.8552
7GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia3.7955
8Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa3.7858
9El SalvadorSLVCentral America3.4708
10UkraineUKREastern Europe3.3155
11Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia3.1150
12BelarusBLREastern Europe2.6170
13North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe2.4741
14AngolaAGOMiddle Africa2.4432
15KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia2.4095
16ArgentinaARGSouth America2.3799
17MexicoMEXCentral America2.3528
18GrenadaGRDCaribbean2.2909
19DominicaDMACaribbean2.2412
20ArmeniaARMWestern Asia2.2316
21BelizeBLZCentral America2.2274
22GhanaGHAWestern Africa2.2127
23KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia2.1649
24SenegalSENWestern Africa2.1242
25NicaraguaNICCentral America2.1132

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mongolia9.2080
  2. 2Mozambique8.7531
  3. 3Lebanon5.6482
  4. 4Jamaica4.6886
  5. 5Montenegro4.2272

Lowest

  1. 118Somalia0.0005
  2. 117Syria0.0014
  3. 116Comoros0.0096
  4. 115Iran0.0211
  5. 114Algeria0.0340

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.8905. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 118values changed, of 118 in both
  • 61 · 57rose · 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 2017.

  • 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 (2017). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2017

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2017?

Mongolia, at 9.2080, of the 118 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2017 cover?

118.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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