France | 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
French Republic
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63
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France | Interest payments (% of revenue)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972 1.3780707
1973 1.15312416
1974 1.28961749
1975 2.16886135
1976 1.8477222
1977 2.01716738
1978 2.19364599
1979 2.30336482
1980 2.09018945
1981 3.20726877
1982 3.26203209
1983 4.28673921
1984 4.38644289
1985 4.7186016
1986 4.79794374
1987 4.5196878
1988 4.40873233
1989 4.69684369
1990 5.21826955
1991 5.42247773
1992 6.14304975
1993 6.7944549
1994 7.15628401
1995 7.03834822
1996 7.10562525
1997 7.12467471
1998 6.99302018
1999 6.46765518
2000 6.3724739
2001 6.33442364
2002 6.47621937
2003 6.27951008
2004 6.16789684
2005 6.07663474
2006 5.71319901
2007 5.857482
2008 6.14569305
2009 5.70860055
2010 5.72855522
2011 6.0699924
2012 5.75008672
2013 4.97441375
2014 4.72074829
2015 4.39047688
2016 4.1161591
2017 3.82707528
2018 3.78496605
2019 3.26595212
2020 2.89988557
2021 3.1528537
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France | 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
French Republic
Records
63
Source