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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2021

2021, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2021 covers 118 countries. Jamaica is highest, at 5.30530; Syria is lowest, at 0.00311. The middle country reads 0.90693. Against 2020, 118 values changed (30 up, 88 down), the same countries are covered.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2021

HighestJamaica

5.30530

LowestSyria

0.00311

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, 2021, 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, 2021: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1JamaicaJAMCaribbean5.30530
2MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa5.02208
3SudanSDNNorthern Africa4.67925
4El SalvadorSLVCentral America4.65574
5GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia3.87902
6AngolaAGOMiddle Africa3.83793
7ArmeniaARMWestern Asia3.48388
8MauritiusMUSEastern Africa3.25615
9MongoliaMNGEastern Asia3.21824
10Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean2.90168
11MontenegroMNESouthern Europe2.85571
12KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia2.67759
13North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe2.25343
14BhutanBTNSouthern Asia2.25283
15ColombiaCOLSouth America2.22684
16UkraineUKREastern Europe2.12496
17LebanonLBNWestern Asia2.10806
18BelarusBLREastern Europe2.05023
19MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia2.04903
20TürkiyeTURWestern Asia2.04127
21SurinameSURSouth America2.01245
22EcuadorECUSouth America1.91290
23Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia1.90552
24TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa1.83429
25BrazilBRASouth America1.82966

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Jamaica5.30530
  2. 2Mozambique5.02208
  3. 3Sudan4.67925
  4. 4El Salvador4.65574
  5. 5Georgia3.87902

Lowest

  1. 118Syria0.00311
  2. 117Somalia0.02097
  3. 116Iran0.02348
  4. 115Haiti0.02418
  5. 114Algeria0.02497

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.90693. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 118values changed, of 118 in both
  • 30 · 88rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Somalia3.67228 → 0.02097−3.65130
  • Suriname4.57730 → 2.01245−2.56484
  • Angola6.07572 → 3.83793−2.23778
  • Senegal3.60637 → 1.75224−1.85413
  • Zambia2.69610 → 1.21875−1.47735

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 2021.

  • 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 (2021). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2021

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2021?

Jamaica, at 5.30530, of the 118 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2021 cover?

118.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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