Interest Payments / Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Interest Payments
Sri Lanka interest payments data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 79.87%.
COUNTRY: Sri Lanka
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:07:39
GM ECONOMY RATING
Sri Lanka · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
CCC
38 / 100
High vulnerability
Fiscal stability
1.1 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
10.0 / 20
External stability
6.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
12.0 / 15
Future capacity
5.0 / 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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Sri Lanka · interest payments data as percent of GDP.
Latest
79.87%
Previous
77.77%
Range avg.
53.99%
Rank
1
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CountrySri Lanka
IndicatorInterest Payments
79.87%2023 · Rank 1
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Sri Lanka recorded 79.87% for Interest Payments in 2023, the latest available observation in this dataset.
The value increased from 77.77% in 2022; the absolute change was 2.10 percentage points.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (53.99%).
Within the last 10 available observations, the range runs from 34.89% in 2015 to 79.87% in 2023.
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