Korea - Interest payments

Interest payments (current LCU)

The value for Interest payments (current LCU) in Korea was 19,920,500,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20,942,400,000,000 in 2014 and a minimum value of 17,000,000,000 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 17,000,000,000
1973 21,000,000,000
1974 31,000,000,000
1975 49,000,000,000
1976 94,000,000,000
1977 132,000,000,000
1978 190,000,000,000
1979 285,000,000,000
1980 434,000,000,000
1981 567,000,000,000
1982 652,000,000,000
1983 687,000,000,000
1984 857,000,000,000
1985 993,000,000,000
1986 1,134,000,000,000
1987 1,134,000,000,000
1988 1,158,000,000,000
1989 814,000,000,000
1990 1,262,000,000,000
1991 1,245,000,000,000
1992 1,495,000,000,000
1993 1,204,000,000,000
1994 1,830,000,000,000
1995 1,943,000,000,000
1996 1,964,000,000,000
1997 2,258,000,000,000
1998 3,398,650,000,000
1999 5,883,830,000,000
2000 6,888,290,000,000
2001 7,197,710,000,000
2002 6,845,840,000,000
2003 6,597,580,000,000
2004 8,710,040,000,000
2005 10,094,100,000,000
2006 12,150,100,000,000
2007 13,443,800,000,000
2008 14,355,900,000,000
2009 11,519,000,000,000
2010 13,386,600,000,000
2011 14,566,100,000,000
2012 20,161,700,000,000
2013 20,294,100,000,000
2014 20,942,400,000,000
2015 20,761,000,000,000
2016 19,643,400,000,000
2017 19,413,700,000,000
2018 19,220,400,000,000
2019 19,920,500,000,000

Interest payments (% of revenue)

Interest payments (% of revenue) in Korea was 3.67 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 7.23 in 1985, while its lowest value was 2.37 in 1996.

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 2.95
1973 3.11
1974 3.02
1975 3.16
1976 4.06
1977 4.49
1978 4.65
1979 5.30
1980 6.44
1981 6.64
1982 6.60
1983 6.02
1984 6.85
1985 7.23
1986 7.21
1987 6.13
1988 5.13
1989 3.19
1990 4.03
1991 3.46
1992 3.49
1993 2.42
1994 3.06
1995 2.74
1996 2.37
1997 2.49
1998 3.56
1999 5.55
2000 5.12
2001 5.07
2002 4.40
2003 3.92
2004 4.97
2005 5.35
2006 5.90
2007 5.70
2008 5.82
2009 4.69
2010 5.04
2011 5.07
2012 5.24
2013 5.17
2014 5.26
2015 4.99
2016 4.33
2017 4.00
2018 3.65
2019 3.67

Interest payments (% of expense)

Interest payments (% of expense) in Korea was 3.76 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 8.32 in 1986, while its lowest value was 2.57 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.

See also:

Year Value
1972 2.57
1973 3.36
1974 3.17
1975 3.36
1976 4.46
1977 5.21
1978 5.55
1979 6.00
1980 7.28
1981 7.67
1982 7.15
1983 7.12
1984 7.96
1985 8.11
1986 8.32
1987 7.36
1988 6.49
1989 3.75
1990 4.75
1991 3.90
1992 4.01
1993 2.91
1994 3.73
1995 3.41
1996 3.02
1997 3.19
1998 4.14
1999 6.70
2000 6.87
2001 6.23
2002 5.65
2003 4.55
2004 5.58
2005 5.92
2006 6.51
2007 6.85
2008 6.79
2009 4.95
2010 5.74
2011 5.78
2012 5.68
2013 5.63
2014 5.67
2015 5.33
2016 4.80
2017 4.41
2018 4.06
2019 3.76

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance