France | Interest payments (% of expense)
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
French Republic
Records
63
Source
France | Interest payments (% of expense)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1.49350649 1972
1.24457308 1973
1.38140951 1974
2.15633423 1975
1.92116595 1976
2.05270054 1977
2.1682243 1978
2.34037964 1979
2.17471775 1980
3.17594586 1981
3.17936022 1982
4.13161231 1983
4.22638736 1984
4.54479101 1985
4.62682457 1986
4.41635481 1987
4.33470138 1988
4.67444427 1989
5.18259836 1990
5.30924253 1991
5.76704638 1992
6.05663026 1993
6.38648537 1994
6.36138779 1995
6.57022298 1996
6.55230081 1997
6.62147667 1998
6.22140388 1999
6.18105391 2000
6.14827117 2001
6.04828412 2002
5.75826567 2003
5.72794902 2004
5.67381406 2005
5.43606953 2006
5.56744935 2007
5.77198182 2008
4.92402687 2009
4.98202894 2010
5.4338469 2011
5.19657414 2012
4.59432771 2013
4.35705692 2014
4.05157568 2015
3.79072002 2016
3.57683801 2017
3.58189026 2018
3.04770596 2019
2.40940405 2020
2.74003008 2021
2022
France | Interest payments (% of expense)
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
French Republic
Records
63
Source