COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Sri Lanka Interest Payments
Sri Lanka interest payments: latest available value for 2023, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
GC.XPN.INTP.RV.ZS| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 79,87 | 2,10 |
| 2022 | 77,77 | 6,15 |
| 2021 | 71,62 | 0,24 |
| 2020 | 71,38 | 23,91 |
| 2019 | 47,47 | 3,37 |
| 2018 | 44,10 | 4,11 |
| 2017 | 39,99 | 3,91 |
| 2016 | 36,08 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: Interest payments include interest payments on government debt (including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments) to domestic and foreign residents. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of revenue which includes all transactions that add to the amount of economic value of a unit or sector.
Source organization: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesSri Lanka recorded 79,87 percent of revenue in 2023, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2022, the interest payments increased by 2,10.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 8 observations from 2016 to 2023, the average was 58,54; the minimum was 36,08 in 2016 and the maximum was 79,87 in 2023.
Sri Lanka ranks 148 out of 148 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is above the available average for South Asia.
It is also above the available average for the Upper middle income group.
Debt-service pressure on public finances.