Interest payments

Interest payments include interest payments on government debt (including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments) to domestic and foreign residents. This indicator is expressed as percentage of total expenses which is any decrease in net worth resulting from a transaction.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
156
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

    International Monetary Fund

    Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Tanzania, United Republic of202412.56percent
Albania20237.84percent
Argentina20237.29percent
Armenia202312.74percent
Austria20232.55percent
Bahamas202318.44percent
Belarus20235.39percent
Bosnia and Herzegovina20232.11percent
Botswana20234.04percent
Brazil202324.14percent

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