Australia | Interest payments (% of revenue)

Interest payments include interest payments on government debt--including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments--to domestic and foreign residents. 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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Commonwealth of Australia
Records
63
Source
Australia | Interest payments (% of revenue)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972 6.74590074
1973 6.93426891
1974 5.78633804
1975 5.63326551
1976 5.13869699
1977 6.4092699
1978 6.85582125
1979 7.50568613
1980 7.28730366
1981 7.13492504
1982 6.89235033
1983 7.36396931
1984 8.56445177
1985 9.57272189
1986 10.65304523
1987 10.6290962
1988 9.20361218
1989 8.20199668
1990 7.44771229
1991 6.15911035
1992 5.9810828
1993 5.53680291
1994 6.395848
1995 7.1449831
1996 7.41534231
1997 7.14301637
1998 6.0231209
1999 7.5615456
2000 6.09310644
2001 3.33481199
2002 2.89421919
2003 2.3651951
2004 1.88680067
2005 1.71231782
2006 1.55104008
2007 1.43675665
2008 1.33666944
2009 1.54593868
2010 2.29974126
2011 3.09609125
2012 3.68647507
2013 3.46491147
2014 3.50905965
2015 3.85096908
2016 3.9156269
2017 3.8046167
2018 3.70461492
2019 3.4932511
2020 3.48613516
2021 3.20656117
2022 3.0820464

Australia | Interest payments (% of revenue)

Interest payments include interest payments on government debt--including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments--to domestic and foreign residents. 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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Commonwealth of Australia
Records
63
Source