Countries by Interest Payments

Global country ranking by interest payments with latest available values, source notes, country links and economic context from World Bank / public data.
INDICATOR: Interest Payments
UNIT: percent of revenue
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
CACHE: live
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:07:39

Full ranking · Interest Payments

GC.XPN.INTP.RV.ZS
Rank Country Latest value Class Country page
1 Sri Lanka 79.87 open
2 India 33.98 open
3 Egypt 33.25 open
4 Bahrain 31.94 open
5 Brazil 30.09 open
6 Kenya 24.28 open
7 Ghana 21.58 open
8 Bangladesh 20.83 open
9 United States 20.29 open
10 Mexico 20 open
11 Jordan 18.62 open
12 South Africa 18.17 open
13 Philippines 17.29 open
14 Malaysia 15.55 open
15 Iceland 14.94 open
16 Papua New Guinea 14.18 open
17 Colombia 13.9 open
18 Fiji 13.86 open
19 Ethiopia 12.62 open
20 Armenia 12.6 open
21 Hungary 12.22 open
22 Laos 11.85 open
23 Turkey 11.66 open
24 Indonesia 11.05 open
25 Maldives 9.73 open
26 Myanmar 9.56 open
27 Israel 9.42 open
28 Italy 9.42 open
29 Kazakhstan 8.96 open
30 Argentina 8.46 open
31 Canada 8.36 open
32 United Kingdom 8.32 open
33 Ukraine 8.27 open
34 Nepal 8.02 open
35 Morocco 8.01 open
36 Greece 7.48 open
37 Romania 7.29 open
38 Peru 6.55 open
39 Spain 6.54 open
40 Thailand 5.76 open
41 Tunisia 5.6 open
42 Georgia 5.51 open
43 Lebanon 5.42 open
44 Portugal 5.41 open
45 South Korea 5.26 open
46 Chile 5.22 open
47 Poland 5.22 open
48 New Zealand 4.65 open
49 Belgium 4.51 open
50 Mongolia 4.26 open
51 France 4.23 open
52 Croatia 4.2 open
53 Kuwait 3.87 open
54 Serbia 3.63 open
55 Saudi Arabia 3.54 open
56 Slovakia 3.51 open
57 Czech Republic 3.48 open
58 China 3.44 open
59 Uzbekistan 3.28 open
60 Austria 3.08 open
61 Australia 3.08 open
62 United Arab Emirates 3.04 open
63 Tajikistan 2.94 open
64 Finland 2.91 open
65 Slovenia 2.86 open
66 Cyprus 2.81 open
67 Latvia 2.69 open
68 Kyrgyzstan 2.63 open
69 Germany 2.48 open
70 Vanuatu 2.42 open
71 Russia 2.36 open
72 Ireland 2.31 open
73 Lithuania 1.88 open
74 Cambodia 1.84 open
75 Netherlands 1.75 open
76 Norway 1.64 open
77 Bhutan 1.52 open
78 Solomon Islands 1.46 open
79 Denmark 1.44 open
80 Bulgaria 1.44 open
81 Estonia 1.42 open
82 Tonga 1.26 open
83 Samoa 1.24 open
84 Sweden 1.09 open
85 Switzerland 0.9 open
86 Azerbaijan 0.88 open
87 Kiribati 0.71 open
88 Luxembourg 0.63 open
89 Palau 0.6 open
90 Iran 0.57 open
91 Singapore 0.47 open
92 Marshall Islands 0.39 open
93 Micronesia 0.38 open
94 Timor-Leste 0.12 open
95 Afghanistan 0.11 open
96 Nauru 0.04 open
97 Macao 0.01 open
98 Iraq 0.01 open

Ranking interpretation

context

This ranking uses the latest available value in the local indicator dataset.

Production version: ranking tables should show source timestamp, latest available year and fallback status.

Countries by Interest Payments: data context and use

This page is part of the Economy Data indicator system. It provides structured country-level economic data, historical series, rankings and comparison views for researchers, students, journalists and decision makers. The page combines indicator metadata, country context, latest available values, ranking information and source notes.

The selected indicator is Interest Payments for Germany. The data are designed for quick comparison across countries and for deeper interpretation together with related macroeconomic indicators such as GDP growth, government debt, unemployment, current account balance, exports, imports, population and inequality.

Keyphrase synonyms: interest payments by country, global interest payments ranking, country ranking interest payments, best countries by interest payments.