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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2020

2020, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2020 covers 118 countries. Angola is highest, at 6.0757; Syria is lowest, at 0.0108. The middle country reads 1.0745. Against 2019, 118 values changed (43 up, 75 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2020

HighestAngola

6.0757

LowestSyria

0.0108

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, 2020, 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, 2020: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1AngolaAGOMiddle Africa6.0757
2JamaicaJAMCaribbean5.4334
3MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa5.1797
4SurinameSURSouth America4.5773
5GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia4.1261
6El SalvadorSLVCentral America4.0481
7MongoliaMNGEastern Asia4.0245
8ArmeniaARMWestern Asia3.8234
9MontenegroMNESouthern Europe3.6760
10SomaliaSOMEastern Africa3.6723
11SenegalSENWestern Africa3.6064
12MauritiusMUSEastern Africa3.4709
13ZambiaZMBEastern Africa2.6961
14KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia2.6324
15ColombiaCOLSouth America2.4836
16NicaraguaNICCentral America2.4609
17MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia2.4486
18TürkiyeTURWestern Asia2.4419
19UkraineUKREastern Europe2.4102
20BelarusBLREastern Europe2.3959
21Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean2.2671
22TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa2.2363
23MexicoMEXCentral America2.1791
24North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe2.1725
25South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa2.1673

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Angola6.0757
  2. 2Jamaica5.4334
  3. 3Mozambique5.1797
  4. 4Suriname4.5773
  5. 5Georgia4.1261

Lowest

  1. 118Syria0.0108
  2. 117Iran0.0250
  3. 116Algeria0.0348
  4. 115Haiti0.0418
  5. 114Afghanistan0.0514

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.0745. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 118values changed, of 118 in both
  • 43 · 75rose · 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 2020.

  • 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 (2020). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2020

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2020?

Angola, at 6.0757, of the 118 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2020 cover?

118.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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