Ireland - Interest payments

Interest payments (current LCU)

The value for Interest payments (current LCU) in Ireland was 4,451,791,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 7,737,762,000 in 2013 and a minimum value of 99,039,570 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 99,039,570
1973 121,894,900
1974 142,210,700
1975 206,967,300
1976 293,309,500
1977 375,842,500
1978 485,039,900
1979 601,855,900
1980 763,112,600
1981 1,050,073,000
1982 1,502,100,000
1983 1,712,877,000
1984 1,927,462,000
1985 2,289,338,000
1986 2,280,450,000
1987 2,399,805,000
1988 2,444,246,000
1989 2,458,213,000
1990 2,840,404,000
1991 2,853,102,000
1992 2,815,009,000
1993 2,848,023,000
1994 2,797,233,000
1995 2,785,404,000
1996 2,621,608,000
1997 2,537,556,000
1998 2,660,097,000
1999 2,164,266,000
2000 2,071,381,000
2001 1,714,541,000
2002 1,741,767,000
2003 1,728,150,000
2004 1,676,534,000
2005 1,714,118,000
2006 1,820,564,000
2007 1,969,524,000
2008 2,385,091,000
2009 3,393,815,000
2010 4,725,363,000
2011 5,746,071,000
2012 7,275,451,000
2013 7,737,762,000
2014 7,574,299,000
2015 6,922,350,000
2016 6,255,561,000
2017 5,935,777,000
2018 5,312,441,000
2019 4,451,791,000

Interest payments (% of revenue)

Interest payments (% of revenue) in Ireland was 5.26 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 23.50 in 1985, while its lowest value was 2.92 in 2006.

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 11.22
1973 11.40
1974 11.72
1975 13.48
1976 14.18
1977 15.31
1978 16.93
1979 17.38
1980 16.93
1981 18.68
1982 21.10
1983 20.70
1984 21.12
1985 23.50
1986 22.56
1987 21.94
1988 20.80
1989 20.83
1990 22.19
1991 20.65
1992 19.06
1993 17.86
1994 16.35
1995 14.49
1996 12.39
1997 10.64
1998 9.90
1999 7.03
2000 5.80
2001 4.56
2002 4.31
2003 3.95
2004 3.44
2005 3.13
2006 2.92
2007 3.01
2008 3.99
2009 6.48
2010 9.12
2011 10.50
2012 12.87
2013 13.19
2014 11.93
2015 10.13
2016 8.82
2017 8.03
2018 6.65
2019 5.26

Interest payments (% of expense)

Interest payments (% of expense) in Ireland was 5.63 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 20.99 in 1990, while its lowest value was 3.13 in 2007.

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 10.76
1973 10.97
1974 10.52
1975 10.92
1976 12.43
1977 13.46
1978 14.14
1979 14.34
1980 14.09
1981 15.27
1982 17.15
1983 17.36
1984 18.18
1985 19.54
1986 18.69
1987 18.52
1988 18.90
1989 19.88
1990 20.99
1991 19.57
1992 17.95
1993 16.79
1994 15.55
1995 13.67
1996 12.33
1997 11.06
1998 10.64
1999 7.93
2000 6.90
2001 4.85
2002 4.35
2003 3.99
2004 3.61
2005 3.31
2006 3.21
2007 3.13
2008 3.44
2009 4.55
2010 4.53
2011 7.56
2012 10.36
2013 11.22
2014 11.05
2015 9.61
2016 8.85
2017 8.11
2018 6.92
2019 5.63

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance