Interest Payments / Bahrain
Bahrain Interest Payments
Bahrain interest payments data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 31.94%.
COUNTRY: Bahrain
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:07:39
GM ECONOMY RATING
Bahrain · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
68 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
5.1 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
18.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
11.0 / 15
Structural stability
14.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
5.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Bahrain · interest payments data as percent of GDP.
Latest
31.94%
Previous
22.20%
Range avg.
15.34%
Rank
4
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CountryBahrain
IndicatorInterest Payments
31.94%2020 · Rank 4
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Bahrain recorded 31.94% for Interest Payments in 2020, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2019, the indicator increased by 9.75 percentage points, from 22.20% to 31.94%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (15.34%).
Across the five latest available observations (2016–2020), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 4.06% in 2011 and the high was 31.94% in 2020.
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