Debt service

Debt service, the sum of principal repayments and interest actually paid in currency, goods, or services, is expressed as a percentage of exports of goods and services--all transactions between residents of a country and the rest of the world involving a change of ownership from residents to nonresidents of general merchandise, net exports of goods under merchanting, nonmonetary gold, and services. This series differs from the standard debt to exports series in that it covers only long-term public and publicly guaranteed debt and repayments (repurchases and charges) to the IMF. Reported as: PPG and IMF only; services and primary income.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
119
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    World Bank

    International Debt Statistics, World Bank (WB)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania20246.21percent
Algeria20240.47percent
Angola202427.64percent
Argentina202421.44percent
Armenia20243.87percent
Azerbaijan20249.08percent
Bangladesh202410.48percent
Belarus20246.94percent
Belize20247.53percent
Bhutan202416.29percent

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