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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2023

2023, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2023 covers 117 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 19.1557; Iran is lowest, at 0.0739. The middle country reads 1.4640. Against 2022, 117 values changed (106 up, 11 down), 1 left.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2023

HighestMozambique

19.1557

LowestIran

0.0739

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, 2023, 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 117 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2023: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa19.1557
2LebanonLBNWestern Asia8.2307
3MongoliaMNGEastern Asia5.7259
4AngolaAGOMiddle Africa5.6679
5MontenegroMNESouthern Europe5.4294
6JamaicaJAMCaribbean5.4065
7SenegalSENWestern Africa5.2797
8El SalvadorSLVCentral America4.5331
9JordanJORWestern Asia4.5269
10LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia4.3489
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia3.9472
12TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa3.8301
13SurinameSURSouth America3.5275
14GabonGABMiddle Africa3.5042
15MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia3.3966
16ArmeniaARMWestern Asia3.3819
17KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia3.3194
18BelarusBLREastern Europe3.2684
19FijiFJIMelanesia2.9684
20DominicaDMACaribbean2.9226
21North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe2.9067
22MauritiusMUSEastern Africa2.8543
23KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia2.8207
24ParaguayPRYSouth America2.7387
25UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia2.6874

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique19.1557
  2. 2Lebanon8.2307
  3. 3Mongolia5.7259
  4. 4Angola5.6679
  5. 5Montenegro5.4294

Lowest

  1. 117Iran0.0739
  2. 116Somalia0.1057
  3. 115Algeria0.1209
  4. 114Haiti0.1430
  5. 113Syria0.1490

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.4640. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 117values changed, of 117 in both
  • 106 · 11rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Ethiopia

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 2023.

  • 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 117 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 (2023). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2023

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2023?

Mozambique, at 19.1557, of the 117 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2023 cover?

117.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2023?

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, 2023 the newest?

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

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