United Kingdom - Interest payments

Interest payments (current LCU)

The value for Interest payments (current LCU) in United Kingdom was 46,720,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 54,727,000,000 in 2017 and a minimum value of 1,763,000,000 in 1972.

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
1972 1,763,000,000
1973 2,133,000,000
1974 2,624,000,000
1975 3,475,000,000
1976 4,280,000,000
1977 4,814,000,000
1978 5,986,000,000
1979 7,585,000,000
1980 9,418,000,000
1981 10,609,000,000
1982 10,985,000,000
1983 11,954,000,000
1984 13,290,000,000
1985 14,564,000,000
1986 15,248,000,000
1987 17,287,000,000
1988 17,901,000,000
1989 18,237,000,000
1990 18,074,000,000
1991 16,368,000,000
1992 16,729,000,000
1993 18,385,000,000
1994 21,509,000,000
1995 25,717,000,000
1996 27,356,000,000
1997 29,364,000,000
1998 30,147,000,000
1999 26,322,000,000
2000 26,318,000,000
2001 23,725,000,000
2002 21,364,000,000
2003 22,281,000,000
2004 23,827,000,000
2005 26,672,000,000
2006 28,343,000,000
2007 32,669,000,000
2008 33,699,000,000
2009 28,008,000,000
2010 45,095,000,000
2011 51,419,000,000
2012 48,068,000,000
2013 49,269,000,000
2014 48,503,000,000
2015 43,297,000,000
2016 47,377,000,000
2017 54,727,000,000
2018 51,911,000,000
2019 46,720,000,000

Interest payments (% of revenue)

Interest payments (% of revenue) in United Kingdom was 5.96 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 11.79 in 1979, while its lowest value was 5.34 in 2004.

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
1972 8.28
1973 9.22
1974 8.92
1975 9.23
1976 9.70
1977 9.60
1978 10.88
1979 11.79
1980 11.51
1981 11.48
1982 10.23
1983 10.54
1984 10.95
1985 10.86
1986 10.88
1987 11.53
1988 10.72
1989 10.14
1990 8.92
1991 7.49
1992 7.60
1993 8.39
1994 9.06
1995 9.77
1996 9.81
1997 9.87
1998 9.30
1999 7.65
2000 7.09
2001 6.20
2002 5.52
2003 5.45
2004 5.34
2005 5.48
2006 5.57
2007 6.06
2008 5.95
2009 5.41
2010 8.18
2011 8.92
2012 8.05
2013 7.91
2014 7.62
2015 6.55
2016 6.80
2017 7.45
2018 6.84
2019 5.96

Interest payments (% of expense)

Interest payments (% of expense) in United Kingdom was 5.72 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 11.44 in 1987, while its lowest value was 4.27 in 2009.

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
1972 8.78
1973 9.41
1974 8.95
1975 8.72
1976 9.07
1977 9.24
1978 9.91
1979 10.77
1980 10.89
1981 10.52
1982 9.89
1983 10.03
1984 10.40
1985 10.63
1986 10.62
1987 11.44
1988 11.30
1989 10.86
1990 9.01
1991 7.26
1992 6.61
1993 6.95
1994 7.78
1995 8.54
1996 8.82
1997 9.33
1998 9.32
1999 7.87
2000 7.35
2001 6.29
2002 5.23
2003 4.97
2004 4.99
2005 5.20
2006 5.22
2007 5.69
2008 5.31
2009 4.27
2010 6.55
2011 7.43
2012 6.63
2013 6.89
2014 6.59
2015 5.84
2016 6.30
2017 7.10
2018 6.54
2019 5.72

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance