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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2019

2019, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2019 covers 118 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 9.0726; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0074. The middle country reads 1.0934. Against 2018, 117 values changed (74 up, 43 down), 1 country joined, 1 left.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2019

HighestMozambique

9.0726

LowestSomalia

0.0074

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, 2019, 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, 2019: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa9.0726
2LebanonLBNWestern Asia6.6389
3JamaicaJAMCaribbean5.1311
4MauritiusMUSEastern Africa4.7186
5MongoliaMNGEastern Asia4.7035
6SurinameSURSouth America4.6256
7AngolaAGOMiddle Africa4.5417
8GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia4.4206
9MontenegroMNESouthern Europe4.2768
10ZambiaZMBEastern Africa3.7485
11Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia3.4560
12FijiFJIMelanesia3.2964
13ArgentinaARGSouth America3.2598
14ArmeniaARMWestern Asia2.9975
15LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia2.9910
16El SalvadorSLVCentral America2.9396
17NicaraguaNICCentral America2.7200
18EcuadorECUSouth America2.7146
19JordanJORWestern Asia2.6108
20KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia2.5800
21BelarusBLREastern Europe2.5743
22UkraineUKREastern Europe2.5741
23BelizeBLZCentral America2.4166
24SenegalSENWestern Africa2.3568
25Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa2.2747

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique9.0726
  2. 2Lebanon6.6389
  3. 3Jamaica5.1311
  4. 4Mauritius4.7186
  5. 5Mongolia4.7035

Lowest

  1. 118Somalia0.0074
  2. 117Syria0.0179
  3. 116Iran0.0234
  4. 115Algeria0.0406
  5. 114Comoros0.0601

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.0934. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −1countries joined / left
  • 117values changed, of 117 in both
  • 74 · 43rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Fiji0.8606 → 3.2964+2.4358
  • Mauritius2.3677 → 4.7186+2.3510
  • Zambia2.3114 → 3.7485+1.4371
  • Laos1.9875 → 2.9910+1.0036
  • Angola3.8158 → 4.5417+0.7259

Fell most

+ Equatorial Guinea− Yemen

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 2019.

  • 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 (2019). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2019

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2019?

Mozambique, at 9.0726, of the 118 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2019 cover?

118.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2019?

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, 2019 the newest?

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

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