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Botswana: Interest payments on external debt, long-term

98.12Mcurrent USD · 2025+382.1% since 2015

Interest payments on long-term debt are actual amounts of interest paid by the borrower in currency, goods, or services in the year specified. Long-term external debt is defined as debt that has an original or extended maturity of more than one year and that is owed to nonresidents by residents of an economy and repayable in currency, goods, or services. Data are in current U.S. dollars. All creditors combined (IDS counterpart area: World); figures by creditor are not carried. Annual figures for Botswana from 1970 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (current USD)Note
202598,124,956.3
2024103,416,427.5
202368,683,182.6
202219,638,351.2
202114,564,198.5
202031,992,092.7
201940,361,515.4
201830,851,973.9
201729,417,728.6
201618,356,239.4
201520,351,871.8
201420,006,557.2
201333,297,873
201221,639,625.2
201117,916,045.2
201017,588,492.7
20099,063,875.4
20087,671,293.6
20079,581,730.5
200610,230,947.9
200511,729,134
200410,870,227.9
200311,444,756.3
200215,156,904.1
200111,862,545
200015,239,479.8
199920,721,326.7
199822,802,411.9
199727,698,176.3
199678,045,149.7
199527,255,797.8
199430,281,156.9
199332,718,919.2
199235,162,791.3
199134,741,158.8
199038,632,819.8
198935,080,256.8
198836,103,628.6
198735,204,970.8
198627,868,978.9
198520,561,725.9
198415,270,235.7
198312,923,767.9
19829,807,151.4
19816,770,981.3
19806,668,470.4
19795,778,268.3
19784,566,373.7
19773,466,322.1
19763,182,854.6
19753,364,747.5
19743,026,463.5
19732,204,927
19721,244,980.5
1971647,160.1
1970448,700

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Published by World Bank, produced by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Interest payments on external debt, long-term. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-interest-payments-on-external-debt-long-term (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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