Greece - Interest payments

Interest payments (current LCU)

The value for Interest payments (current LCU) in Greece was 5,754,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 15,533,000,000 in 2011 and a minimum value of 13,793,100 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 13,793,100
1973 15,994,130
1974 22,890,680
1975 28,495,960
1976 40,645,640
1977 43,697,720
1978 56,551,720
1979 91,181,220
1980 137,138,700
1981 185,033,000
1982 152,252,400
1983 252,795,300
1984 524,167,300
1985 737,314,800
1986 1,005,312,000
1987 1,315,070,000
1988 1,736,200,000
1989 2,117,183,000
1990 4,019,076,000
1997 9,722,000,000
1998 9,783,000,000
1999 10,243,000,000
2000 9,613,000,000
2001 9,585,000,000
2002 9,323,000,000
2003 9,038,000,000
2004 9,477,000,000
2005 9,613,000,000
2006 9,936,000,000
2007 10,808,000,000
2008 12,041,000,000
2009 12,362,000,000
2010 13,714,000,000
2011 15,533,000,000
2012 10,063,000,000
2013 7,545,000,000
2014 7,301,000,000
2015 6,542,000,000
2016 5,909,000,000
2017 5,849,000,000
2018 6,349,000,000
2019 5,754,000,000

Interest payments (% of revenue)

Interest payments (% of revenue) in Greece was 6.70 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 35.09 in 1990, while its lowest value was 4.43 in 1973.

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 4.77
1973 4.43
1974 5.43
1975 5.41
1976 5.78
1977 5.24
1978 5.52
1979 7.27
1980 8.91
1981 10.49
1982 5.95
1983 7.22
1984 13.06
1985 15.17
1986 16.32
1987 18.24
1988 21.00
1989 24.14
1990 35.09
1997 22.56
1998 20.13
1999 19.64
2000 16.61
2001 16.08
2002 14.84
2003 13.50
2004 13.06
2005 12.70
2006 12.06
2007 11.93
2008 12.72
2009 13.92
2010 15.29
2011 17.75
2012 11.70
2013 8.87
2014 9.13
2015 8.05
2016 7.05
2017 7.03
2018 7.48
2019 6.70

Interest payments (% of expense)

Interest payments (% of expense) in Greece was 6.72 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 20.87 in 1990, while its lowest value was 4.22 in 1982.

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 5.77
1973 5.21
1974 5.64
1975 5.93
1976 6.29
1977 5.50
1978 5.88
1979 7.71
1980 9.01
1981 8.99
1982 4.22
1983 7.23
1984 10.56
1985 12.05
1986 13.82
1987 14.68
1988 16.03
1989 14.66
1990 20.87
1997 19.98
1998 18.29
1999 18.32
2000 15.88
2001 14.84
2002 13.58
2003 12.02
2004 11.26
2005 11.24
2006 10.75
2007 10.54
2008 10.54
2009 10.15
2010 12.01
2011 13.93
2012 9.53
2013 6.97
2014 8.42
2015 7.23
2016 7.02
2017 6.95
2018 7.38
2019 6.72

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance