Cameroon vs Mauritius: Interest payments

Cameroon

7.8%

in 2021

Mauritius

8.4%

in 2023

Cameroon rank

68th

Mauritius rank

65th

Interest payments over time

Cameroon
Mauritius

How they compare

Mauritius currently reports 8.4% against 7.8% in Cameroon, a difference of 0.6%.

That makes Mauritius's figure about 1.1 times Cameroon's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 18 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Mauritius ahead.

Cameroon ranks 68th and Mauritius ranks 65th of 152 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Interest payments (% of expense)
Unit: % of expense
Source: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 193 places, 5,277 data points, 1972–2024
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

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 percentage of total expenses which is any decrease in net worth resulting from a transaction.