World Bank · Debt
Interest payments, public sector, bonds
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.
- Coverage
- 89 of 238 countries
- Latest data
- 2025
- Series
- 89
- Unit
- current USD
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-05
- Indicator
- interest-payments-public-sector-bonds
- Interva ID
- worldbank-interest-payments-public-sector-bonds
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%41 of 89 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 89 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 23 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
Measured122 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, public sector, bonds for each of the 89 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Albania 2009–2025
- Algeria 1972–1995
- Angola 2016–2025
- Argentina 1970–2025
- Armenia 2014–2025
- Azerbaijan 2012–2025
- Bangladesh 2012–2025
- Belarus 2007–2025
- Belize 2000–2025
- Benin 1970–2025
- Bolivia, Plurinational State of 1970–2025
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 2010–2025
- Botswana 1971–1988
- Brazil 1973–2025
- Burkina Faso 1975–1984
- Cameroon 1970–2025
- China 1981–2025
- Colombia 1970–2025
- Congo 2009–2025
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the 1970–2005
- Côte d'Ivoire 1970–2025
- Dominica 2000–2025
- Dominican Republic 1994–2025
- Ecuador 1970–2025
- Egypt 1973–2025
- El Salvador 1970–2025
- Eswatini 2024–2025
- Ethiopia 2015–2025
- Fiji 1970–2020
- Gabon 1970–2025
- Georgia 2008–2025
- Ghana 2014–2025
- Grenada 1970–2025
- Guatemala 1970–2025
- Guinea-Bissau 2014–2025
- Guyana 1970–2025
- Honduras 1993–2025
- India 1970–2025
- Indonesia 1978–2025
- Iraq 2017–2023
- Jamaica 1970–2025
- Jordan 1990–2025
- Kazakhstan 1997–2025
- Kenya 1970–2025
- Kosovo 2023–2025
- Kyrgyzstan 2025–2025
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 2013–2025
- Lebanon 1995–2020
- Malawi 1970–1981
- Maldives 2018–2025
- Mauritania 1974–1986
- Mauritius 1970–2025
- Mexico 1970–2025
- Moldova, Republic of 1997–2009
- Mongolia 2008–2025
- Montenegro 2011–2025
- Morocco 1970–2025
- Mozambique 2020–2025
- Nicaragua 1973–1979
- Niger 1974–1982
- Nigeria 1970–2025
- North Macedonia 2006–2025
- Pakistan 1995–2025
- Papua New Guinea 1974–2025
- Paraguay 2013–2025
- Peru 1970–2025
- Philippines 1970–2025
- Rwanda 1975–2025
- Saint Lucia 2000–2025
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1970–2024
- Samoa 1974–1994
- Senegal 1970–2025
- Serbia 1970–2025
- Sierra Leone 1970–1970
- South Africa 1994–2025
- Sri Lanka 1970–2025
- Sudan 1970–1973
- Suriname 2017–2025
- Tajikistan 2018–2025
- Thailand 1978–2025
- Togo 1970–1978
- Tunisia 1970–2025
- Türkiye 1970–2025
- Uganda 1970–2025
- Ukraine 1995–2025
- Uzbekistan 2019–2025
- Viet Nam 1998–2025
- Zambia 1970–2025
- Zimbabwe 1970–2025
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albania | 2025 | 63.12M | current USD |
| Angola | 2025 | 816.37M | current USD |
| Argentina | 2025 | 1.25B | current USD |
| Armenia | 2025 | 83.26M | current USD |
| Azerbaijan | 2025 | 194.97M | current USD |
| Bangladesh | 2025 | 57.67M | current USD |
| Belarus | 2025 | 170.01M | current USD |
| Belize | 2025 | 211,000 | current USD |
| Benin | 2025 | 163.10M | current USD |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 2025 | 108.75M | 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
- 2026-11-06122 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, public sector, bonds. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-interest-payments-public-sector-bonds (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.
@misc{interva-worldbank-interest-payments-public-sector-bonds,
title = {Interest payments, public sector, bonds},
author = {World Bank},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-interest-payments-public-sector-bonds}},
note = {Interva dataset worldbank-interest-payments-public-sector-bonds; 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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