SGI 2022 | Sustainable Policies | Economic Policies | Budgets | Gross Interest Payments by General Govt

What is the ratio of general government gross interest payments to GDP?

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Gross general government interest payments, percent of GDP
Year:	2021
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	OECD Online Database, IMF World Economic Outlook
Data for:	AUS, AUT, BEL, BGR, CAN, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ITA, JPN, KOR, LVA, LTU, LUX, NLD, NZL, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, GBR, USA
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Economic Outlook No 111 - June 2022. URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted June 11th, 2022 IMF: Dataset: World Economic Outlook April 2022, Gross domestic product, current prices [NGDP] URL: https://www.imf.org/en/Publi… extracted June 11th, 2022
Source 2:	World Bank World Development Indicators, IMF World Economic Outlook
Data for:	CYP, ISR, MLT, MEX, TUR
Exceptions:	CYP (2019), ISR (2019), MLT (2019), MEX (2019), TUR (2020)
Annotation:	World Bank: Dataset: World Development Indicators, Interest payments (current LCU) [GC.XPN.INTP.CN] URL: https://databank.worldbank.o… extracted June 13th, 2022 IMF: Dataset: World Economic Outlook April 2022, Gross domestic product, current prices [NGDP] URL: https://www.imf.org/en/Publi… extracted June 11th, 2022

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	-2.195
Maximum:	6.965
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9
Annotat.:	Indicator calculated by Margit Kraus (Calculus Consult)

Additional annotations and exceptions

Values for 2021 are based on OECD and IMF estimates.

Top group

Score

Gross Interest Payments by General Govt

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Upper middle group

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Estonia

7.8

0.03

Luxembourg

7.7

0.16

Switzerland

7.6

0.22

Sweden

7.6

0.23

Norway

7.6

0.28

Lithuania

7.4

0.45

Australia

7.4

0.49

Finland

7.4

0.49

Latvia

7.4

0.49

Bulgaria

7.4

0.50

Denmark

7.3

0.54

Netherlands

7.3

0.56

Germany

7.3

0.59

Czechia

7.1

0.74

Ireland

7.1

0.78

Chile

7.0

0.89

South Korea

6.8

1.08

Austria

6.8

1.11

Slovakia

6.8

1.11

Poland

6.7

1.12

New Zealand

6.7

1.15

Slovenia

6.6

1.27

Romania

6.6

1.29

Malta

6.5

1.32

France

6.5

1.39

Japan

6.4

1.48

Belgium

6.2

1.66

Lower middle group

Croatia

5.8

2.13

Israel

5.7

2.16

Spain

5.7

2.16

Cyprus

5.7

2.20

Hungary

5.5

2.34

Portugal

5.4

2.45

Greece

5.4

2.46

5.3

2.59

Canada

5.2

2.67

Mexico

5.2

2.68

Turkey

4.8

3.07

USA

4.4

3.51

Italy

4.4

3.54

Iceland

3.8

4.09

Bottom group

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