Switzerland - Interest payments

Interest payments (current LCU)

The value for Interest payments (current LCU) in Switzerland was 1,090,162,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4,057,142,000 in 2006 and a minimum value of 318,000,000 in 1972.

Definition: Interest payments include interest payments on government debt--including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments--to domestic and foreign residents.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1972 318,000,000
1973 360,000,000
1974 435,000,000
1975 568,000,000
1976 585,000,000
1977 801,000,000
1978 790,000,000
1979 797,000,000
1980 881,000,000
1981 1,033,000,000
1982 1,027,000,000
1983 1,002,000,000
1984 980,000,000
1990 1,828,621,000
1991 2,035,543,000
1992 2,564,142,000
1993 2,594,426,000
1994 3,292,415,000
1995 3,294,496,000
1996 3,034,233,000
1997 3,200,880,000
1998 3,487,111,000
1999 3,713,728,000
2000 3,654,618,000
2001 3,537,368,000
2002 3,492,260,000
2003 3,093,247,000
2004 3,162,391,000
2005 3,599,750,000
2006 4,057,142,000
2007 3,738,570,000
2008 3,462,084,000
2009 3,043,314,000
2010 2,880,559,000
2011 2,656,214,000
2012 2,404,827,000
2013 2,144,873,000
2014 2,007,250,000
2015 1,925,384,000
2016 1,703,956,000
2017 1,448,929,000
2018 1,190,327,000
2019 1,090,162,000

Interest payments (% of revenue)

Interest payments (% of revenue) in Switzerland was 0.84 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 5.02 in 1994, while its lowest value was 0.84 in 2019.

Definition: Interest payments include interest payments on government debt--including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments--to domestic and foreign residents.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1972 1.77
1973 1.66
1974 1.75
1975 2.18
1976 2.01
1977 2.70
1978 2.51
1979 2.48
1980 2.55
1981 2.79
1982 2.56
1983 2.38
1984 2.15
1990 3.35
1991 3.56
1992 4.29
1993 4.17
1994 5.02
1995 4.77
1996 4.27
1997 4.44
1998 4.52
1999 4.78
2000 4.19
2001 4.16
2002 4.09
2003 3.62
2004 3.65
2005 3.99
2006 4.26
2007 3.75
2008 3.26
2009 2.92
2010 2.69
2011 2.41
2012 2.17
2013 1.88
2014 1.75
2015 1.62
2016 1.43
2017 1.16
2018 0.94
2019 0.84

Interest payments (% of expense)

Interest payments (% of expense) in Switzerland was 0.90 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 4.52 in 1994, while its lowest value was 0.90 in 2019.

Definition: Interest payments include interest payments on government debt--including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments--to domestic and foreign residents.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1972 2.04
1973 1.85
1974 1.96
1975 2.22
1976 2.01
1977 2.64
1978 2.55
1979 2.45
1980 2.58
1981 2.93
1982 2.63
1983 2.43
1984 2.21
1990 3.53
1991 3.50
1992 3.97
1993 3.67
1994 4.52
1995 4.48
1996 3.94
1997 4.04
1998 4.28
1999 4.32
2000 4.18
2001 4.17
2002 3.72
2003 3.46
2004 3.46
2005 3.88
2006 4.34
2007 3.88
2008 3.56
2009 2.98
2010 2.76
2011 2.51
2012 2.26
2013 1.95
2014 1.80
2015 1.69
2016 1.46
2017 1.23
2018 1.00
2019 0.90

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance