El Salvador - Interest payments (current LCU)

The value for Interest payments (current LCU) in El Salvador was 763,700,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 763,700,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 127,080,000 in 1998.

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
1998 127,080,000
1999 146,320,000
2000 156,980,000
2001 193,800,000
2002 288,900,000
2003 260,000,000
2004 360,000,000
2005 375,400,000
2006 513,100,000
2007 427,100,000
2008 432,400,000
2009 459,400,000
2010 478,900,000
2011 506,600,000
2012 497,483,100
2013 537,300,000
2014 597,535,300
2015 567,622,300
2016 610,560,500
2017 689,302,400
2018 730,300,000
2019 763,700,000

Limitations and Exceptions: For most countries central government finance data have been consolidated into one account, but for others only budgetary central government accounts are available. Countries reporting budgetary data are noted in the country metadata. Because budgetary accounts may not include all central government units (such as social security funds), they usually provide an incomplete picture. In federal states the central government accounts provide an incomplete view of total public finance. Data on government revenue and expense are collected by the IMF through questionnaires to member countries and by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Despite IMF efforts to standardize data collection, statistics are often incomplete, untimely, and not comparable across countries.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014, harmonized with the 2008 SNA, recommends an accrual accounting method, focusing on all economic events affecting assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses, not just those represented by cash transactions. It accounts for all changes in stocks, so stock data at the end of an accounting period equal stock data at the beginning of the period plus flows over the period. The 1986 manual considered only debt stocks. Government finance statistics are reported in local currency. Many countries report government finance data by fiscal year; see country metadata for information on fiscal year end by country.

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance