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
1972 1.49350649
1973 1.24457308
1974 1.38140951
1975 2.15633423
1976 1.92116595
1977 2.05270054
1978 2.1682243
1979 2.34037964
1980 2.17471775
1981 3.17594586
1982 3.17936022
1983 4.13161231
1984 4.22638736
1985 4.54479101
1986 4.62682457
1987 4.41635481
1988 4.33470138
1989 4.67444427
1990 5.18259836
1991 5.30924253
1992 5.76704638
1993 6.05663026
1994 6.38648537
1995 6.36138779
1996 6.57022298
1997 6.55230081
1998 6.62147667
1999 6.22140388
2000 6.18105391
2001 6.14827117
2002 6.04828412
2003 5.75826567
2004 5.72794902
2005 5.67381406
2006 5.43606953
2007 5.56744935
2008 5.77198182
2009 4.92402687
2010 4.98202894
2011 5.4338469
2012 5.19657414
2013 4.59432771
2014 4.35705692
2015 4.05157568
2016 3.79072002
2017 3.57683801
2018 3.58189026
2019 3.04770596
2020 2.40940405
2021 2.74003008
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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