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Interest payments (% of revenue)

% of revenue · Annual · 160 of 218 countries (73 %) · 1972–2024
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World average (population-weighted)
14.0 %
across 87 countries, 2024
Latest observation
2024
Source updated
13 Jul 2026
CountryAtlas refreshed
11 Sep 2026
Snapshot 20260911T072322Z

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One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.

1972–2024 · 87 countries
Interest payments (% of revenue), 2024World map of Interest payments (% of revenue) (2024) for 87 countries, from 0.0 % to 35.8 %.Fiji: 13.9 %Tanzania: 13.9 %W. Sahara: —Canada: 8.4 %United States: 20.3 %Kazakhstan: —Uzbekistan: —Papua New Guinea: 14.2 %Indonesia: —Argentina: 8.5 %Chile: 5.2 %DR Congo: —Somalia: 0.6 %Kenya: —Sudan: —Chad: —Haiti: —Dominican Republic: 19.3 %Russia: —Bahamas: 20.0 %Falkland Is.: —Norway: 1.6 %Greenland: —Fr. S. Antarctic Lands: —Timor-Leste: —South Africa: 18.2 %Lesotho: 3.5 %Mexico: 20.0 %Uruguay: 6.9 %Brazil: 30.1 %Bolivia: —Peru: —Colombia: 13.9 %Panama: 28.9 %Costa Rica: 16.6 %Nicaragua: 7.0 %Honduras: —El Salvador: 14.3 %Guatemala: 12.5 %Belize: —Venezuela: —Guyana: —Suriname: —France: 4.2 %Ecuador: —Puerto Rico: —Jamaica: —Cuba: —Zimbabwe: —Botswana: —Namibia: 14.7 %Senegal: —Mali: —Mauritania: —Benin: —Niger: —Nigeria: —Cameroon: —Togo: —Ghana: —Côte d'Ivoire: —Guinea: —Guinea-Bissau: 21.0 %Liberia: —Sierra Leone: —Burkina Faso: 9.7 %Central African Republic: —Republic of the Congo: —Gabon: —Equatorial Guinea: —Zambia: 28.3 %Malawi: 35.8 %Mozambique: 15.1 %Eswatini: —Angola: 25.2 %Burundi: —Israel: 9.4 %Lebanon: 5.4 %Madagascar: 4.8 %Palestine: —Gambia: —Tunisia: —Algeria: —Jordan: —United Arab Emirates: 3.0 %Qatar: —Kuwait: —Iraq: —Oman: —Vanuatu: —Cambodia: —Thailand: 5.8 %Laos: —Myanmar: —Vietnam: —North Korea: —South Korea: 5.3 %Mongolia: 4.3 %India: —Bangladesh: —Bhutan: —Nepal: —Pakistan: —Afghanistan: —Tajikistan: 2.9 %Kyrgyzstan: 2.6 %Turkmenistan: —Iran: —Syria: —Armenia: 12.6 %Sweden: 1.1 %Belarus: 4.2 %Ukraine: 8.3 %Poland: —Austria: 3.1 %Hungary: 12.2 %Moldova: —Romania: 7.3 %Lithuania: 1.9 %Latvia: 2.7 %Estonia: 1.4 %Germany: 2.5 %Bulgaria: 1.4 %Greece: 7.5 %Türkiye: 11.7 %Albania: 7.4 %Croatia: —Switzerland: 0.9 %Luxembourg: 0.6 %Belgium: 4.5 %Netherlands: 1.7 %Portugal: 5.4 %Spain: 6.5 %Ireland: 2.3 %New Caledonia: —Solomon Islands: 1.5 %New Zealand: 4.7 %Australia: —Sri Lanka: —China: —Taiwan: —Italy: 9.4 %Denmark: 1.4 %United Kingdom: 8.3 %Iceland: —Azerbaijan: 0.9 %Georgia: 5.5 %Philippines: 17.3 %Malaysia: 15.6 %Brunei: —Slovenia: 2.9 %Finland: 2.9 %Slovakia: 3.5 %Czechia: 3.5 %Eritrea: —Japan: —Paraguay: 10.3 %Yemen: —Saudi Arabia: 3.5 %N. Cyprus: —Cyprus: 2.8 %Morocco: —Egypt: —Libya: —Ethiopia: 12.6 %Djibouti: —Somaliland: —Uganda: 21.0 %Rwanda: —Bosnia and Herzegovina: 2.4 %North Macedonia: 5.9 %Serbia: —Montenegro: —Kosovo: —Trinidad and Tobago: —South Sudan: —
Interest payments (% of revenue), 2024
  • 0.0 % – 2.0 %
  • 2.0 % – 3.5 %
  • 3.5 % – 5.8 %
  • 5.8 % – 9.9 %
  • 9.9 % – 15.4 %
  • 15.4 % – 35.8 %
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World · Interest payments (% of revenue)
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World · Interest payments (% of revenue)2 series from 1972 to 2024: Population-weighted mean, Median.198019902000201020200%5%10%15%20%25%

2 series from 1972 to 2024: Population-weighted mean, Median.

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Interest payments (% of revenue)3 series from 1972 to 2024: United States, Germany, United Kingdom.198019902000201020200%5%10%15%20%25%

3 series from 1972 to 2024: United States, Germany, United Kingdom.

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Definition

Definition
Unit
% of revenue (%)
Frequency
Annual
Aggregation
none · Lower is better
Valid range
0 – 200

Sources & provenance

Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.

  1. Priority #1
    World BankWDIGC.XPN.INTP.RV.ZSok
    160 countries · 4,501 obs. · → 2024 · CC BY 4.0

    Interest payments include interest payments on government debt (including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments) to domestic and foreign residents. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of revenue which includes all transactions that add to the amount of economic value of a unit or sector. Source: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.

Countries without data

131 of 218 countries have no value for 2024.

Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.

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curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=interest-payments-pct-revenue" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'

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