Nepal - Interest payments

Interest payments (current LCU)

The value for Interest payments (current LCU) in Nepal was 20,714,550,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 24 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20,714,550,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 3,430,000,000 in 1995.

Definition: Interest payments include interest payments on government debt--including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments--to domestic and foreign residents.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1995 3,430,000,000
1996 3,868,000,000
1997 4,074,000,000
1998 3,752,000,000
1999 4,080,000,000
2000 4,820,000,000
2001 4,698,000,000
2002 5,770,000,000
2003 6,621,800,000
2004 6,543,900,000
2005 6,218,000,000
2006 6,158,700,000
2007 6,164,000,000
2008 6,373,700,000
2009 8,154,200,000
2010 9,981,258,000
2011 12,519,200,000
2012 15,160,830,000
2013 13,736,700,000
2014 12,037,870,000
2015 9,263,198,000
2016 8,673,040,000
2017 10,023,700,000
2018 16,247,310,000
2019 20,714,550,000

Interest payments (% of revenue)

Interest payments (% of revenue) in Nepal was 2.32 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 24 years was 12.68 in 1995, while its lowest value was 1.58 in 2017.

Definition: Interest payments include interest payments on government debt--including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments--to domestic and foreign residents.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1995 12.68
1996 12.31
1997 11.55
1998 10.20
1999 10.45
2000 10.47
2001 8.88
2002 10.50
2003 10.18
2004 9.21
2005 7.54
2006 7.32
2007 6.03
2008 5.28
2009 4.91
2010 4.62
2011 4.95
2012 5.32
2013 4.15
2014 2.98
2015 2.06
2016 1.66
2017 1.58
2018 2.02
2019 2.32

Interest payments (% of expense)

Interest payments (% of expense) in Nepal was 2.47 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 15 years was 8.35 in 2004, while its lowest value was 1.93 in 2017.

Definition: Interest payments include interest payments on government debt--including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments--to domestic and foreign residents.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
2004 8.35
2010 5.35
2011 5.76
2012 6.23
2013 5.55
2014 3.97
2015 2.73
2016 2.34
2017 1.93
2018 2.33
2019 2.47

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance