Interest Payments / Lebanon
Lebanon Interest Payments
Lebanon interest payments data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 5.42%.
COUNTRY: Lebanon
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:07:39
GM ECONOMY RATING
Lebanon · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
CCC
26 / 100
High vulnerability
Fiscal stability
6.5 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
5.1 / 20
External stability
1.2 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
8.8 / 15
Future capacity
1.5 / 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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Lebanon · interest payments data as percent of GDP.
Latest
5.42%
Previous
13.59%
Range avg.
37.51%
Rank
43
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CountryLebanon
IndicatorInterest Payments
5.42%2024 · Rank 43
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Lebanon recorded 5.42% for Interest Payments in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator decreased by 8.17 percentage points, from 13.59% to 5.42%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (37.51%).
Across the five latest available observations (2018–2024), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 5.42% in 2024 and the high was 50.84% in 2016.
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