Interest Payments / Belgium
Belgium Interest Payments
Belgium interest payments data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 4.51%.
COUNTRY: Belgium
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:07:39
GM ECONOMY RATING
Belgium · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
51 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
15.0 / 20
External stability
4.0 / 15
Financial robustness
4.0 / 15
Structural stability
14.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Belgium · interest payments data as percent of GDP.
Latest
4.51%
Previous
3.97%
Range avg.
4.88%
Rank
49
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CountryBelgium
IndicatorInterest Payments
4.51%2024 · Rank 49
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Belgium recorded 4.51% for Interest Payments in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.54 percentage points, from 3.97% to 4.51%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (4.88%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 3.42% in 2022 and the high was 6.60% in 2015.
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