COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Tanzania Interest Payments
Tanzania interest payments: latest available value for 2024, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
GC.XPN.INTP.RV.ZS| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13,89 | 0,65 |
| 2023 | 13,24 | 1,83 |
| 2022 | 11,41 | -0,06 |
| 2021 | 11,46 | 1,05 |
| 2020 | 10,42 | -2,41 |
| 2019 | 12,82 | 2,48 |
| 2018 | 10,35 | 0,42 |
| 2017 | 9,93 | -0,50 |
| 2016 | 10,43 | — |
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)
Metadata fetched: 2026-08-01 01:16:07. Open original metadata response.
Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesTanzania recorded 13,89 percent of revenue in 2024, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2023, the interest payments increased by 0,65.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 9 observations from 2016 to 2024, the average was 11,55; the minimum was 9,93 in 2017 and the maximum was 13,89 in 2024.
Tanzania ranks 115 out of 148 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is above the available average for Sub-Saharan Africa.
It is also above the available average for the Lower middle income group.
Debt-service pressure on public finances.