Average interest on new external debt commitments (%) - Terms - External debt - Economic Policy & Debt - World Development Indicators

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Interest represents the average interest rate on all new public and publicly guaranteed loans contracted during the year. To obtain the average, the interest rates for all public and publicly guaranteed loans have been weighted by the amounts of the loans. Public debt is an external obligation of a public debtor, including the national government, a political subdivision (or an agency of either), and autonomous public bodies. Publicly guaranteed debt is an external obligation of a private debtor that is guaranteed for repayment by a public entity.

Rank	Country	Value
Average interest on new external debt commitments (%) - Terms - External debt - Economic Policy & Debt - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Venezuela	8.67
2	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	8.50
3	Lebanon	8.46
4	Mexico	6.19
5	Belarus	6.13
6	Jamaica	6.03
7	El Salvador	5.86
8	Turkey	5.77
9	Iran	5.59
10	Upper middle income	5.57
11	Eritrea	5.54
12	Latin America & Caribbean	5.50
13	Lithuania	5.49
14	Russia	5.43
15	Europe & Central Asia	5.25
16	Serbia	5.19
17	Malaysia	5.13
18	Georgia	5.12
19	Macedonia	5.07
20	Middle East & North Africa	5.02
21	Brazil	5.02
22	Latvia	4.95
23	Romania	4.93
24	Poland	4.89
25	Middle income	4.89
26	Montenegro	4.79
27	Morocco	4.78
28	Argentina	4.72
29	Low & middle income	4.62
30	Seychelles	4.62
31	Colombia	4.56
32	Chile	4.54
33	Indonesia	4.50
34	Angola	4.49
35	Costa Rica	4.46
36	Guatemala	4.45
37	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.44
38	Albania	4.25
39	Bulgaria	4.25
40	Mauritius	4.24
41	Belize	4.16
42	East Asia & Pacific	3.92
43	China	3.91
44	Azerbaijan	3.83
45	Bolivia	3.78
46	Paraguay	3.65
47	Philippines	3.53
48	Ecuador	3.49
49	Jordan	3.46
50	Peru	3.43
51	Lower middle income	3.41
52	South Africa	3.36
53	Kazakhstan	3.35
54	Ukraine	3.32
55	Uruguay	3.24
56	Egypt	3.03
57	Panama	2.84
58	Honduras	2.80
59	Republic of the Congo	2.80
60	Swaziland	2.78
61	Mauritania	2.72
62	Senegal	2.72
63	Tunisia	2.68
64	Sudan	2.65
65	Gabon	2.58
66	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.53
67	Rwanda	2.45
68	Nicaragua	2.42
69	Uzbekistan	2.39
70	Ghana	2.38
71	Cape Verde	2.37
72	Dominican Republic	2.32
73	Sri Lanka	2.32
74	Pakistan	2.26
75	Djibouti	2.23
76	Vietnam	2.21
77	Papua New Guinea	2.11
78	Vanuatu	2
79	Yemen	1.89
80	Lesotho	1.74
81	South Asia	1.68
82	Low income	1.66
83	Kyrgyzstan	1.62
84	Guyana	1.59
85	Benin	1.51
86	Thailand	1.50
87	India	1.34
88	Laos	1.34
89	Kenya	1.29
90	Niger	1.29
91	Tajikistan	1.29
92	Madagascar	1.28
93	Cambodia	1.23
94	Armenia	1.22
95	Bangladesh	1.17
96	Mali	1.11
97	Burkina Faso	1.06
98	Haiti	1
99	Burundi	1
100	Malawi	0.99
101	Maldives	0.93
102	Zambia	0.93
103	Mozambique	0.87
104	Samoa	0.84
105	Ethiopia	0.82
106	Sierra Leone	0.81
107	Dominica	0.75
108	Mongolia	0.75
109	Nigeria	0.75
110	Bhutan	0.75
111	Moldova	0.75
112	Grenada	0.75
113	St. Lucia	0.75
114	Cameroon	0.74
115	Uganda	0.74
116	Tanzania	0.73
117	Nepal	0.63
118	Afghanistan	0.48
119	Ivory Coast	0
120	Turkmenistan	0
121	Fiji	0
122	Burma	0
123	Central African Republic	0
124	Botswana	0
125	Solomon Islands	0
126	Somalia	0
127	Algeria	0
128	Liberia	0
129	St. Kitts and Nevis	0
130	Sao Tome and Principe	0
131	Comoros	0
132	Chad	0
133	Guinea-Bissau	0
134	Togo	0
135	Gambia	0
136	Guinea	0
137	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0
138	Tonga	0

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