Interest payments (current LCU) - GC.XPN.INTP.CN

Data - WDI

Author

François Geerolf

Last observation: 2024 (N = 87)

First observation: 1972 (N = 33)

Last data update: 23 sept. 2026, 23:04

Last compile: 23 sept. 2026, 23:12

Nobs - Javascript

Code 
GC.XPN.INTP.CN |>
  bind_rows(NY.GDP.MKTP.CN) |>
  spread(variable, value) |>
  mutate(value = `GC.XPN.INTP.CN`/`NY.GDP.MKTP.CN`) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  mutate(value = round(100*value, 2)) |>
  group_by(iso2c, Iso2c) |>
  summarise(Nobs = n(),
            `Year 1` = first(year),
            `Interest 1` = first(value),
            `Year 2` = last(year),
            `Interest 2` = last(value)) |>
  arrange(-Nobs) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F) else .}

Ex: Interest Payments

Code 
GC.XPN.INTP.CN |>
  bind_rows(NY.GDP.MKTP.CN) |>
  spread(variable, value) |>
  mutate(value = `GC.XPN.INTP.CN`/`NY.GDP.MKTP.CN`) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  mutate(interest_payments = round(100*`GC.XPN.INTP.CN`/`NY.GDP.MKTP.CN`, 2)) |>
  arrange(-interest_payments) |>
  mutate(interest_payments = interest_payments |> round(digits = 2) |> paste0(" %")) |>
  select(iso2c, Iso2c, interest_payments) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F) else .}

Argentina, Mexico, Lebanon

Code 
GC.XPN.INTP.CN |>
  bind_rows(NY.GDP.MKTP.CN) |>
  spread(variable, value) |>
  mutate(value = `GC.XPN.INTP.CN`/`NY.GDP.MKTP.CN`) |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("AR", "MX", "LB")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  group_by(Iso2c) |>
  complete(date = seq.Date(min(date), max(date), by = "year")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  na.omit() |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + add_flags + scale_color_identity() +
  xlab("") + ylab("Interest Payments (% of GDP)") +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1900, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-100, 10000, 1),
                     labels = percent_format(a = 1)) + 
  geom_hline(yintercept = 0, linetype = "dashed", color = "black")

Argentina, Portugal, Spain

Code 
GC.XPN.INTP.CN |>
  bind_rows(NY.GDP.MKTP.CN) |>
  spread(variable, value) |>
  mutate(value = `GC.XPN.INTP.CN`/`NY.GDP.MKTP.CN`) |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("PT", "IT", "ES")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  group_by(Iso2c) |>
  complete(date = seq.Date(min(date), max(date), by = "year")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  na.omit() |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + add_flags + scale_color_identity() +
  xlab("") + ylab("Interest Payments (% of GDP)") +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1900, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-100, 10000, 1),
                     labels = percent_format(a = 1)) + 
  geom_hline(yintercept = 0, linetype = "dashed", color = "black")

Italy, Portugal, Spain

Code 
GC.XPN.INTP.CN |>
  bind_rows(NY.GDP.MKTP.CN) |>
  spread(variable, value) |>
  mutate(value = `GC.XPN.INTP.CN`/`NY.GDP.MKTP.CN`) |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("PT", "IT", "ES")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  group_by(Iso2c) |>
  complete(date = seq.Date(min(date), max(date), by = "year")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + add_flags + scale_color_identity() +
  xlab("") + ylab("Interest Payments (% of GDP)") +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1900, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-100, 10000, 1),
                     labels = percent_format(a = 1))

Greece, Iceland, Denmark

Code 
GC.XPN.INTP.CN |>
  bind_rows(NY.GDP.MKTP.CN) |>
  spread(variable, value) |>
  mutate(value = `GC.XPN.INTP.CN`/`NY.GDP.MKTP.CN`) |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("GR", "IS", "DK")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  #filter(date >= min(date), !is.na(GC.XPN.INTP.CN), !is.na(NY.GDP.MKTP.CN)) %>%
  group_by(Iso2c) |>
  complete(date = seq.Date(min(date), max(date), by = "year")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + add_flags + scale_color_identity() +
  xlab("") + ylab("Interest Payments (% of GDP)") +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.15, 0.85)) +
  add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1900, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-100, 10000, 1),
                     labels = percent_format(a = 1)) + 
  geom_hline(yintercept = 0, linetype = "dashed", color = "grey")

France, Italy, Germany

Code 
GC.XPN.INTP.CN |>
  bind_rows(NY.GDP.MKTP.CN) |>
  spread(variable, value) |>
  mutate(value = `GC.XPN.INTP.CN`/`NY.GDP.MKTP.CN`) |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("FR", "CH", "IT")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  group_by(Iso2c) |>
  complete(date = seq.Date(min(date), max(date), by = "year")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  na.omit() |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + add_flags + scale_color_identity() +
  xlab("") + ylab("Interest Payments (% of GDP)") +
  add_flags +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1900, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-100, 10000, 1),
                     labels = percent_format(a = 1))

United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Code 
GC.XPN.INTP.CN |>
  bind_rows(NY.GDP.MKTP.CN) |>
  spread(variable, value) |>
  mutate(value = `GC.XPN.INTP.CN`/`NY.GDP.MKTP.CN`) |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("JP", "US", "GB")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  group_by(Iso2c) |>
  complete(date = seq.Date(min(date), max(date), by = "year")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  na.omit() |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + add_flags + scale_color_identity() +
  xlab("") + ylab("Interest Payments (% of GDP)") +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.8, 0.2)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1900, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-100, 10000, 1),
                     labels = percent_format(a = 1)) + 
  geom_hline(yintercept = 0, linetype = "dashed", color = "grey")

Lebanon, Brazil, Jamaica

Code 
GC.XPN.INTP.CN |>
  bind_rows(NY.GDP.MKTP.CN) |>
  spread(variable, value) |>
  mutate(value = `GC.XPN.INTP.CN`/`NY.GDP.MKTP.CN`) |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("LB", "BR", "JM")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  group_by(Iso2c) |>
  complete(date = seq.Date(min(date), max(date), by = "year")) |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  na.omit() |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + add_flags + scale_color_identity() +
  xlab("") + ylab("Interest Payments (% of GDP)") +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.85, 0.85)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1900, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(-100, 10000, 1),
                     labels = percent_format(a = 1)) + 
  geom_hline(yintercept = 0, linetype = "dashed", color = "grey")