Iceland | 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
Republic of Iceland
Records
63
Source
Iceland | Interest payments (% of expense)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972 3.30383481
1973 3.97404704
1974 3.83763838
1975 6.92496494
1976 6.19249306
1977 6.5762849
1978 8.10760321
1979 8.45399911
1980 6.54548397
1981 7.18865556
1982 8.08409954
1983 9.2286804
1984 11.51590832
1985 11.54715213
1986 9.87511533
1987 7.60513574
1988 9.11056701
1989 9.50787574
1990 10.2499103
1991 10.37005628
1992 10.16102963
1993 10.73049384
1994 11.01342082
1995 11.83914719
1996 10.70306376
1997 10.68730937
1998 10.64972109
1999 10.38151559
2000 9.44463869
2001 9.15093419
2002 7.67996197
2003 6.73825275
2004 6.24992319
2005 15.24024362
2006 17.49951165
2007 18.41080024
2008 22.02010791
2009 28.44519975
2010 20.64834413
2011 22.05739654
2012 23.27623706
2013 22.65007388
2014 19.07052052
2015 20.13911487
2016 16.01090442
2017 17.05688076
2018 14.91935281
2019 12.88618518
2020 9.7188767
2021 10.18809
2022 15.4886393

Iceland | 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
Republic of Iceland
Records
63
Source