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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2018

2018, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2018 covers 118 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 11.162857; Somalia is lowest, at 0.000795. The middle country reads 1.026225. Against 2017, 118 values changed (91 up, 27 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2018

HighestMozambique

11.162857

LowestSomalia

0.000795

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, 2018, 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, 2018: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa11.162857
2MongoliaMNGEastern Asia9.693915
3LebanonLBNWestern Asia7.356790
4JamaicaJAMCaribbean6.040690
5MontenegroMNESouthern Europe4.944243
6SurinameSURSouth America4.169804
7GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia4.048670
8AngolaAGOMiddle Africa3.815838
9Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa3.779975
10Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia3.291489
11ArgentinaARGSouth America2.924338
12BelarusBLREastern Europe2.864013
13UkraineUKREastern Europe2.830139
14El SalvadorSLVCentral America2.718804
15KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia2.704379
16EcuadorECUSouth America2.582739
17KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia2.581196
18DominicaDMACaribbean2.561832
19ArmeniaARMWestern Asia2.509217
20MauritiusMUSEastern Africa2.367659
21JordanJORWestern Asia2.338551
22NicaraguaNICCentral America2.334839
23ZambiaZMBEastern Africa2.311438
24SenegalSENWestern Africa2.297397
25BelizeBLZCentral America2.296985

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique11.162857
  2. 2Mongolia9.693915
  3. 3Lebanon7.356790
  4. 4Jamaica6.040690
  5. 5Montenegro4.944243

Lowest

  1. 118Somalia0.000795
  2. 117Syria0.006025
  3. 116Iran0.013987
  4. 115Algeria0.034961
  5. 114Haiti0.054361

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.026225. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 118values changed, of 118 in both
  • 91 · 27rose · 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 2018.

  • 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 (2018). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2018

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2018?

Mozambique, at 11.162857, of the 118 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2018 cover?

118.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2018?

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, 2018 the newest?

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

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