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China: Interest payments, public sector, bonds

15.49Bcurrent USD · 2025+8687.5% since 2015

Public sector debt from bonds that are either publicly issued or privately placed. 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 China from 1981 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (current USD)Note
202515,487,656,027.1
20245,945,916,391.9
202316,712,513,660.7
202217,053,442,229.5
202114,786,650,948.7
20206,041,476,315.3
20195,086,547,445.4
20183,281,697,652
20171,105,688,937.9
2016214,411,000
2015176,246,000
2014349,372,000
2013151,432,000
201259,040,000
2011309,570,000
2010392,688,569.2
2009557,413,426.4
2008496,807,788.8
2007778,156,011.2
2006501,986,149.9
2005430,054,559.5
2004327,784,171.7
2003469,760,677
2002412,863,314.2
2001689,999,667.4
2000521,000,000
1999483,000,000
1998397,000,000
1997558,176,175.1
1996506,425,685.7
1995593,820,444.6
1994363,116,883.9
1993286,308,714.1
1992337,131,480.6
1991356,253,651.6
1990366,824,767.6
1989346,832,363.6
1988288,799,420.2
1987212,814,361.8
198690,546,904
198520,463,160
19843,715,555
19834,645,485.5
19824,879,592
19813,456,000

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

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