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Interest Payments on External Debt, 2024

2024, as World Bank Group’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2024 covers 112 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 17.920; Iran is lowest, at 0.069. The middle country reads 1.451. Against 2023, 112 values changed (55 up, 57 down), 5 left.

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Interest Payments on External Debt · Data for 2024

HighestMozambique

17.920

LowestIran

0.069

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, 2024, 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 112 countries · select a heading to sort

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2024: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa17.920
2MongoliaMNGEastern Asia12.633
3AngolaAGOMiddle Africa5.825
4SenegalSENWestern Africa5.602
5JamaicaJAMCaribbean5.207
6LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia4.890
7JordanJORWestern Asia4.851
8MontenegroMNESouthern Europe4.824
9El SalvadorSLVCentral America4.557
10SurinameSURSouth America4.426
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia4.046
12MauritiusMUSEastern Africa3.643
13KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia3.566
14Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean3.374
15TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa3.341
16ParaguayPRYSouth America3.305
17MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia3.143
18FijiFJIMelanesia2.980
19North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe2.969
20UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia2.964
21KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia2.951
22DominicaDMACaribbean2.868
23BelarusBLREastern Europe2.826
24ArmeniaARMWestern Asia2.814
25NigeriaNGAWestern Africa2.692

02In 2024

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique17.920
  2. 2Mongolia12.633
  3. 3Angola5.825
  4. 4Senegal5.602
  5. 5Jamaica5.207

Lowest

  1. 112Iran0.069
  2. 111Haiti0.100
  3. 110Somalia0.104
  4. 109Algeria0.105
  5. 108Sudan0.132

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.451. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032023 → 2024

Since 2023

What changed between 2023 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −5countries joined / left
  • 112values changed, of 112 in both
  • 55 · 57rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Afghanistan− Bhutan− Lebanon− Syria− Tonga

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 2024.

  • 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 112 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 (2024). Interest Payments on External Debt, 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/external-debt-interest/2024

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07Questions

Interest Payments on External Debt, 2024: questions and answers

Which country has the highest interest on external debt in Interest Payments on External Debt, 2024?

Mozambique, at 17.920, of the 112 countries in the file.

What year does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2024 describe?

2024.

How many countries does Interest Payments on External Debt, 2024 cover?

112.

Where can I download Interest Payments on External Debt, 2024?

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, 2024 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-29, when it was read from the publisher.

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