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Interest payments on external debt, central bank
Central bank long-term debt are aggregated. The central bank is the financial institution (or institutions) that exercises control over key aspects of the financial system. The monetary authority, normally the agency that issues currency and holds the country’s international reserves. 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.
- Coverage
- 72 of 238 countries
- Latest data
- 2025
- Series
- 72
- Unit
- current USD
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-05
- Indicator
- interest-payments-on-external-debt-central-bank
- Interva ID
- worldbank-interest-payments-on-external-debt-central-bank
Recency
current
data to 2025; catalog to 2025
Provenance
2 steps
as the publisher declares it
Versions
2
catalog snapshots
Citation
BibTeX + CSL
versioned permalink
Quality profile
This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.
Recency
100%Latest observation is 2025; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 0 year(s) behind (current).
Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.
Temporal completeness
100%32 of 72 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.
Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.
Geographic coverage
MeasuredCovers 72 of the 238 countries in the catalog.
Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.
History depth
MeasuredThe median series has 26 observations; the earliest begins in 1970.
Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.
Revisions
Measured6 observation(s) restated by the publisher across 1 vintage(s) Interva has recorded.
Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.
Schema conformity
Not assessedNo declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Validity
Not assessedNo field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Consistency
Not assessedCross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.
2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.
By country
Interest payments on external debt, central bank for each of the 72 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Albania 1991–2025
- Algeria 1999–2025
- Angola 1989–2019
- Argentina 1970–2025
- Armenia 2007–2025
- Bangladesh 1982–1990
- Belarus 1995–2021
- Belize 1985–2011
- Bhutan 2010–2025
- Bolivia, Plurinational State of 1972–2018
- Brazil 1971–2010
- Burundi 2016–2025
- Cameroon 2018–2025
- Central African Republic 2018–2025
- China 1988–1997
- Colombia 1970–2012
- Dominican Republic 1970–2025
- Ecuador 1977–2025
- Egypt 1970–2025
- El Salvador 1970–2025
- Ethiopia 2019–2024
- Ghana 1979–2025
- Guatemala 1970–2005
- Guinea 1983–2000
- Guinea-Bissau 1987–2010
- Guyana 1987–2025
- Haiti 1970–2025
- Honduras 1970–2025
- India 1980–2007
- Indonesia 1975–2019
- Iran, Islamic Republic of 1992–2025
- Iraq 2015–2025
- Jamaica 1977–2025
- Jordan 1986–1987
- Kyrgyzstan 1994–2005
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 1971–1990
- Lesotho 1989–2003
- Madagascar 1981–2025
- Malawi 1976–1985
- Maldives 1993–2025
- Mauritania 1973–2021
- Mauritius 2022–2025
- Moldova, Republic of 1995–2005
- Mongolia 1992–2025
- Morocco 2018–2022
- Mozambique 1984–2025
- Myanmar 1970–2025
- Nicaragua 1973–2025
- Nigeria 1982–1986
- Pakistan 1975–2025
- Papua New Guinea 1999–2025
- Paraguay 1974–2020
- Peru 1976–2008
- Philippines 1970–2025
- Rwanda 1999–2025
- Serbia 1970–2021
- Sierra Leone 2022–2025
- Somalia 1970–1976
- South Africa 2002–2012
- Sri Lanka 1971–2025
- Syrian Arab Republic 2009–2011
- Thailand 1998–2025
- Tunisia 1970–2019
- Türkiye 1970–2025
- Turkmenistan 1994–2007
- Uganda 1981–1991
- Ukraine 1992–2010
- Uzbekistan 2024–2025
- Viet Nam 1981–2025
- Yemen 2012–2016
- Zambia 1979–1998
- Zimbabwe 2007–2019
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albania | 2025 | 44,047 | current USD |
| Algeria | 2025 | 0 | current USD |
| Argentina | 2025 | 29.78M | current USD |
| Armenia | 2025 | 12.45M | current USD |
| Bhutan | 2025 | 4.85M | current USD |
| Burundi | 2025 | 197,729 | current USD |
| Cameroon | 2025 | 6133.30 | current USD |
| Central African Republic | 2025 | 82,337 | current USD |
| Dominican Republic | 2025 | 69,000 | current USD |
| Ecuador | 2025 | 25,000 | current USD |
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
World Bank
World Bank, International Debt Statistics.
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Read from
World Bank
International Debt Statistics
declared by worldbank in source
Versions
A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.
- CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
- 2026-11-066 observation(s) restatedchecksum not recorded
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Citation
Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
World Bank (2026). Interest payments on external debt, central bank. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-interest-payments-on-external-debt-central-bank (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.
@misc{interva-worldbank-interest-payments-on-external-debt-central-bank,
title = {Interest payments on external debt, central bank},
author = {World Bank},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-interest-payments-on-external-debt-central-bank}},
note = {Interva dataset worldbank-interest-payments-on-external-debt-central-bank; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
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