Interest Payments / Germany
Germany Interest Payments
Germany interest payments data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 2.48%.
COUNTRY: Germany
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:07:39
GM ECONOMY RATING
Germany · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
69 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
17.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
16.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
4.0 / 15
Structural stability
15.0 / 15
Future capacity
9.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
3.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Germany · interest payments data as percent of GDP.
Latest
2.48%
Previous
2.05%
Range avg.
1.79%
Rank
69
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CountryGermany
IndicatorInterest Payments
2.48%2024 · Rank 69
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Germany recorded 2.48% for Interest Payments in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.43 percentage points, from 2.05% to 2.48%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (1.79%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 0.97% in 2021 and the high was 2.66% in 2015.
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