Interest Payments / Iraq
Iraq Interest Payments
Iraq interest payments data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 0.01%.
COUNTRY: Iraq
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:07:39
GM ECONOMY RATING
Iraq · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
48 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
8.9 / 20
External stability
6.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
0.4 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Iraq · interest payments data as percent of GDP.
Latest
0.01%
Previous
5.26%
Range avg.
2.10%
Rank
98
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CountryIraq
IndicatorInterest Payments
0.01%2019 · Rank 98
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Iraq recorded 0.01% for Interest Payments in 2019, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2018, the indicator decreased by 5.25 percentage points, from 5.26% to 0.01%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 6 available observations (2.10%).
Across the five latest available observations (2015–2019), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 6 available observations, the low was 0.01% in 2019 and the high was 5.26% in 2018.
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