Interest payments (% of revenue) - Country Ranking

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: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Lebanon 50.83 2019
2 Sri Lanka 47.47 2019
3 Zambia 44.45 2019
4 Ghana 37.04 2019
5 Egypt 33.25 2015
6 Barbados 25.63 2016
7 Angola 24.78 2019
8 Brazil 23.72 2019
9 India 23.01 2018
10 Malawi 20.68 2020
11 Jamaica 20.24 2019
12 Kenya 19.28 2019
13 Argentina 18.56 2019
14 Bangladesh 18.46 2016
15 Dominican Republic 17.74 2019
16 Costa Rica 16.06 2019
17 Papua New Guinea 15.36 2019
18 United States 15.06 2020
19 Guatemala 14.55 2019
20 Mexico 14.45 2019
21 Jordan 14.36 2019
22 The Gambia 14.30 1990
23 Indonesia 14.04 2019
24 St. Lucia 13.64 2017
25 The Bahamas 13.54 2019
26 Zimbabwe 13.47 2018
27 Uganda 13.17 2019
28 Iceland 13.07 2019
29 Panama 12.85 2018
30 South Africa 12.49 2019
31 Malaysia 12.45 2019
32 Gabon 11.72 2019
33 Côte d'Ivoire 11.56 2019
34 Philippines 11.51 2019
35 Togo 11.50 2019
36 El Salvador 11.44 2019
37 Fiji 11.25 2019
38 Colombia 11.22 2019
39 Mongolia 10.94 2018
40 Namibia 10.93 2019
41 Tanzania 10.35 2018
42 Mozambique 10.32 2019
43 Turkey 10.05 2020
44 Trinidad and Tobago 10.01 2018
45 Armenia 9.96 2019
46 Morocco 9.93 2019
47 Dem. Rep. Congo 9.79 1989
48 Myanmar 9.56 2019
49 Belize 9.44 2017
50 Ukraine 9.39 2019
51 Senegal 9.01 2018
52 Congo 8.57 2018
53 Burundi 8.42 1996
54 Italy 8.15 2019
55 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 8.14 2017
56 Albania 8.07 2019
57 Bolivia 7.99 2007
58 Mauritius 7.99 2019
59 Cabo Verde 7.96 2017
60 Portugal 7.92 2019
61 Uruguay 7.76 2019
62 Honduras 7.73 2015
63 Guinea 7.40 1992
64 Niger 7.23 1980
65 Spain 6.84 2019
66 Israel 6.71 2019
67 Greece 6.70 2019
68 Nicaragua 6.61 2019
69 Peru 6.48 2019
70 Guinea-Bissau 6.39 2019
71 Kazakhstan 6.28 2019
72 Burkina Faso 6.08 2019
73 Georgia 6.06 2020
74 United Kingdom 5.96 2019
75 Canada 5.93 2019
76 Mali 5.87 2019
77 Hungary 5.83 2019
78 Cyprus 5.64 2019
79 Tunisia 5.60 2012
80 Croatia 5.43 2019
81 Ireland 5.26 2019
82 Thailand 5.18 2019
83 Ethiopia 5.17 2019
84 Sudan 5.13 2016
85 Tajikistan 5.09 2004
86 Cameroon 4.98 2018
87 Belarus 4.96 2019
88 St. Kitts and Nevis 4.88 2017
89 Serbia 4.80 2019
90 Madagascar 4.75 2019
91 Paraguay 4.69 2019
92 Belgium 4.56 2019
93 Rwanda 4.41 2019
94 Equatorial Guinea 4.38 2019
95 Slovenia 4.35 2019
96 Romania 4.35 2019
97 Bhutan 4.14 2018
98 Chile 4.12 2019
99 North Macedonia 4.06 2019
100 Kuwait 3.87 1998
101 Malta 3.74 2019
102 Poland 3.70 2019
103 Korea 3.67 2019
104 Australia 3.49 2019
105 Bahrain 3.43 2004
106 New Zealand 3.29 2019
107 France 3.27 2019
108 Austria 3.20 2019
109 Slovak Republic 3.14 2019
110 Kyrgyz Republic 3.09 2019
111 Lesotho 3.05 2019
112 Lithuania 3.01 2019
113 Moldova 2.76 2019
114 China 2.76 2018
115 Russia 2.62 2019
116 Latvia 2.35 2019
117 Nepal 2.32 2019
118 Saudi Arabia 2.28 2019
119 Botswana 2.22 2019
120 Vanuatu 2.10 2019
121 Czech Republic 2.08 2019
122 Finland 2.08 2019
123 Samoa 1.98 2019
124 Netherlands 1.89 2019
125 Azerbaijan 1.75 2019
126 Denmark 1.72 2019
127 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.63 2019
128 Bulgaria 1.48 2019
129 Germany 1.47 2019
130 Central African Republic 1.35 2018
131 Cambodia 1.34 2019
132 Uzbekistan 0.97 2019
133 Sweden 0.95 2019
134 Switzerland 0.84 2019
135 Benin 0.83 1979
136 Norway 0.74 2019
137 Luxembourg 0.71 2019
138 San Marino 0.71 2019
139 Kiribati 0.67 2019
140 Iran 0.57 2009
141 Solomon Islands 0.52 2020
142 Palau 0.47 2019
143 Singapore 0.42 2019
144 Estonia 0.14 2019
145 Afghanistan 0.11 2017
146 Timor-Leste 0.08 2019
147 Iraq 0.01 2019
148 United Arab Emirates 0.00 2019
149 Macao SAR, China 0.00 2019
149 Seychelles 0.00 2018
149 Somalia 0.00 2019
149 Nauru 0.00 2018

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Limitations and Exceptions: For most countries central government finance data have been consolidated into one account, but for others only budgetary central government accounts are available. Countries reporting budgetary data are noted in the country metadata. Because budgetary accounts may not include all central government units (such as social security funds), they usually provide an incomplete picture. In federal states the central government accounts provide an incomplete view of total public finance. Data on government revenue and expense are collected by the IMF through questionnaires to member countries and by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Despite IMF efforts to standardize data collection, statistics are often incomplete, untimely, and not comparable across countries.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014, harmonized with the 2008 SNA, recommends an accrual accounting method, focusing on all economic events affecting assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses, not just those represented by cash transactions. It accounts for all changes in stocks, so stock data at the end of an accounting period equal stock data at the beginning of the period plus flows over the period. The 1986 manual considered only debt stocks. Government finance statistics are reported in local currency. Many countries report government finance data by fiscal year; see country metadata for information on fiscal year end by country.

Aggregation method: Median

Periodicity: Annual