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China: Interest payments on external debt, public sector

23.64Bcurrent USD · 2025+897.8% since 2015

Public sector long-term debt are aggregated. Public debt is an external obligation of a public debtor, including the national government, a political subdivision (or an agency of either), and autonomous public bodies. Publicly guaranteed debt is an external obligation of a private debtor that is guaranteed for repayment by a public entity. Interest payments 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. Reported as: PPG. All creditors combined (IDS counterpart area: World); figures by creditor are not carried. Annual figures for China from 1981 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (current USD)Note
202523,643,529,567.5
202413,878,910,598
202323,529,931,683.2
202220,637,240,459.1
202117,004,969,909.6
20208,504,967,994.2
20198,669,896,271.5
20186,134,483,143.5
20173,349,376,777.8
20162,034,429,619.1
20152,369,530,096.3
20141,844,288,887.2
20132,087,103,742.7
20122,270,747,433.7
20111,910,347,997
20101,817,424,267.8
20092,187,949,112.3
20082,659,807,150.9
20073,274,680,314.2
20062,345,892,179.5
20052,231,876,630.9
20043,065,994,165.4
20033,302,343,293.8
20023,076,980,457.5
20014,332,773,765.1
20004,141,149,249.7
19993,744,247,235.2
19984,612,160,401.3
19975,446,221,950.9
19964,577,250,079
19954,608,088,617.1
19943,806,541,443
19932,615,953,250.9
19922,704,879,447.3
19912,947,231,082.3
19902,526,400,984.6
19892,507,285,192.4
19881,611,298,527.1
19871,125,024,836.9
1986645,041,578.3
1985586,612,714.5
1984610,110,773.4
1983522,680,013.2
1982541,017,712.8
1981517,967,056.1

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

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