United States Interest Payments
United States interest payments data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 20.29%.
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Interpretation
United States recorded 20.29% for Interest Payments in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 2.27 percentage points, from 18.02% to 20.29%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (12.76%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 8.81% in 2015 and the high was 20.29% in 2024.