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Sri Lanka: Average interest on new external debt commitments, private

0percent · 2025-100.0% since 2015

Interest represents the average interest rate on all new public and publicly guaranteed loans contracted during the year. To obtain the average, the interest rates for all public and publicly guaranteed loans have been weighted by the amounts of the loans. 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. All creditors combined (IDS counterpart area: World); figures by creditor are not carried. Annual figures for Sri Lanka from 1970 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20250
20240
20230
20220
20213.532
20203.685
20196.982
20185.756
20175.015
20165.008
20156.592
20144.504
20136.386
20122.666
20115.896
20105.68
20097.226
20083.052
20077.409
20064.763
20055.391
20042.313
20032.701
20022.1
20010
20006.611
19994.456
19986.421
19976.592
19966.045
19955.459
19946.551
19937.966
19926.679
19917.26
19908.035
19899.011
19888.365
19877.885
19867.467
198510.364
19849.022
198310.29
198214.76
198116.921
19808.704
19799.844
19786.089
19777.71
19764.595
19758.566
19747.355
19738.003
19726.962
19717.532
19705.862

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World Bank (2026). Average interest on new external debt commitments, private. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-average-interest-on-new-external-debt-commitments-private (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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