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Botswana: Interest payments, public sector, private creditors

64,000current USD · 2019-71.0% since 2007

Public sector debt from private creditors include bonds that are either publicly issued or privately placed; commercial bank loans from private banks and other private financial institutions; and other private credits from manufacturers, exporters, and other suppliers of goods, and bank credits covered by a guarantee of an export credit agency. Interest payments are actual amounts of interest paid by the borrower in currency, goods, or services in the year specified. 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 2019.

19782019

Every year

YearValue (current USD)Note
201964,000
2018204,000
2017263,000
2016282,000
2015158,000
20124,000
201113,000
201015,000
200928,000
2008111,000
2007221,000
2006274,000
2005245,000
2004208,000
2003236,000
2002306,000
2001491,000
2000722,762.6
19991,038,001.1
1998573,071.9
19971,110,213.2
19965,514,175.4
19951,080,414.2
19941,159,312.2
19931,057,701.1
19922,216,882
19912,464,882.3
19903,037,179.3
19893,604,533.5
19883,549,375.8
19873,102,728.3
19863,131,820.2
19853,510,343.9
19844,612,458.3
19834,231,500.2
19822,511,875.8
1981699,003.7
1980968,054.6
1979637,675.1
1978163,300
1977202,893
19765,755.9
1975230,233.2
1974232,154.8
1973221,833.3
1972207,207.3
1971247,592.5
197014,000

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World Bank (2026). Interest payments, public sector, private creditors. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-interest-payments-public-sector-private-creditors (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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