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Interest, payable, Ratio of this level of government's expenditure on this item to total general government expenditure on this, Percent (Central government) by country

The Fiscal Decentralization dataset includes fiscal decentralization indicators for a sample of IMF member countries. The following indicators are included in the dataset: Revenue and Expenditure Decentralization Shares; Transfer dependency and Vertical Fiscal Imbalances; Deficit and Debt; Allocation of...

Countries reporting
80
Highest
1.4
Kyrgyzstan
Lowest
0.0062
United Arab Emirates
Median
0.9822
Years covered
49
1972–2020
Data points
1,616

What the numbers show

Interest, payable, Ratio of this level of government's expenditure on this item to total general government expenditure on this, Percent (Central government) is currently reported for 80 countries. The highest value is 1.4 in Kyrgyzstan; the lowest is 0.0062 in United Arab Emirates.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.9822, and the mean is 0.9235.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 225.

Over the past decade 38 countries rose and 36 fell. The largest increase was in Iran (up 100.0%), and the largest decrease in China (down 30.9%).

Interest, payable, Ratio of this level of government's … total: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Kyrgyzstan 1.4 2019 up 24.9% rising
2 Mauritius 1.31 2020 down 5.3% flat
3 Israel 1.23 2020 down 2.0% rising
4 Guatemala 1.12 2020 down 3.3% flat
5 Greece 1.07 2020 down 0.7% flat
6 Honduras 1.04 2015 up 6.6% rising
7 Turkey 1.03 2020 down 5.2% flat
8 United Kingdom 1.03 2020 up 1.5% rising
9 Kazakhstan 1.03 2020 down 7.3% falling
10 Portugal 1.03 2020 up 1.5% flat
11 Cyprus 1.01 2020 down 14.1% falling
12 Albania 1 2020 up 0.0% flat
13 Hungary 1 2020 up 2.9% flat
14 Iran 1 2009 up 100.0% volatile
14 Kiribati 1 2019 unchanged flat
14 Marshall Islands 1 2018 unchanged flat
14 Palau 1 2019 unchanged flat
14 Azerbaijan 1 2019 unchanged flat
14 Afghanistan 1 2017 unchanged flat
20 Myanmar 1 2019 down 0.0% flat
21 Uganda 0.9998 2020 down 0.0% flat
22 Armenia 0.9996 2020 down 0.0% flat
23 Malta 0.9992 2020 down 0.1% flat
24 Chile 0.9992 2020 up 0.0% flat
25 Rwanda 0.9991 2020 down 8.5% falling
26 Indonesia 0.9982 2020 down 0.0% flat
27 Ireland 0.998 2020 up 0.3% flat
28 Paraguay 0.9965 2020 up 2.3% flat
29 North Macedonia 0.996 2020 down 0.4% flat
30 Senegal 0.9958 2020 down 1.3% flat
31 Georgia 0.9931 2020 up 2.0% flat
32 Slovakia 0.9913 2020 up 1.1% flat
33 Slovenia 0.9912 2020 up 1.1% flat
34 Costa Rica 0.9893 2020 down 0.2% rising
35 Lithuania 0.9889 2020 up 2.9% rising
36 Peru 0.9879 2020 up 3.4% flat
37 Ukraine 0.9877 2020 up 3.8% flat
38 Moldova 0.9868 2020 down 0.1% flat
39 Croatia 0.9836 2020 up 0.2% flat
40 Thailand 0.9833 2020 down 1.7% flat
41 Serbia 0.9811 2020 up 5.4% rising
42 Kenya 0.981 2020 up 1.6% flat
43 Brazil 0.9766 2020 down 1.8% flat
44 Poland 0.9729 2020 up 3.6% rising
45 Colombia 0.9704 2020 up 0.4% rising
46 Czechia 0.966 2020 up 1.5% rising
47 Romania 0.9658 2020 up 4.1% rising
48 South Africa 0.9573 2020 up 3.4% flat
49 South Korea 0.957 2020 up 3.3% flat
50 Mexico 0.9553 2020 up 0.7% falling
51 Bulgaria 0.9518 2020 down 1.6% falling
52 Mongolia 0.9518 2020 down 4.8% flat
53 Austria 0.9374 2020 up 0.6% flat
54 Belarus 0.9367 2020 up 14.6% falling
55 Italy 0.9335 2020 up 1.7% falling
56 Cape Verde 0.9317 2016 down 4.7% falling
57 El Salvador 0.9309 2020 down 2.7% falling
58 Uzbekistan 0.9307 2020 up 1.5% flat
59 Denmark 0.9118 2020 down 0.8% flat
60 Iceland 0.8988 2020 down 6.2% rising
61 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.8959 2020 up 7.5% falling
62 Latvia 0.8933 2020 down 12.3% rising
63 Spain 0.8907 2020 up 0.5% rising
64 Russia 0.8905 2020 up 15.4% flat
65 Finland 0.8851 2020 down 6.0% falling
66 Japan 0.8593 2020 up 17.1% rising
67 Luxembourg 0.8375 2020 up 1.2% rising
68 Belgium 0.8253 2020 down 5.0% falling
69 Netherlands 0.8031 2020 down 6.3% flat
70 France 0.7754 2020 down 6.2% flat
71 Estonia 0.7477 2020 up 49.5% rising
72 Sweden 0.7447 2020 down 11.5% falling
73 Australia 0.6951 2020 up 11.3% rising
74 United States 0.6405 2020 up 9.0% falling
75 China 0.5654 2020 down 30.9% falling
76 Germany 0.4889 2020 down 16.4% falling
77 Norway 0.4811 2020 down 29.4% falling
78 Switzerland 0.4464 2020 down 18.5% rising
79 Canada 0.3464 2020 down 25.3% falling
80 United Arab Emirates 0.0062 2020 — volatile

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Indicator
Interest, payable, Ratio of this level of government's expenditure on this item to total general government expenditure on this, Percent (Central government)
Source
International Monetary Fund
Licence
IMF Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
Coverage
80 places, 1,616 data points, 1972–2020
Last refreshed

The Fiscal Decentralization dataset includes fiscal decentralization indicators for a sample of IMF member countries. The following indicators are included in the dataset: Revenue and Expenditure Decentralization Shares; Transfer dependency and Vertical Fiscal Imbalances; Deficit and Debt; Allocation of expenditure (economic classification); Allocation of expenditure (functional classification); Allocation of non-Tax Revenues; and Allocation of Taxes.