Interest Payments / Samoa
Samoa Interest Payments
Samoa interest payments data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 1.24%.
COUNTRY: Samoa
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:07:39
GM ECONOMY RATING
Samoa · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
62 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
19.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
11.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
0.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Samoa · interest payments data as percent of GDP.
Latest
1.24%
Previous
1.15%
Range avg.
1.95%
Rank
83
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CountrySamoa
IndicatorInterest Payments
1.24%2023 · Rank 83
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Samoa recorded 1.24% for Interest Payments in 2023, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2022, the indicator increased by 0.09 percentage points, from 1.15% to 1.24%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (1.95%).
Across the five latest available observations (2019–2023), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 0.77% in 2021 and the high was 2.96% in 2015.
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