Iceland | 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
Republic of Iceland
Records
63
Source
Iceland | Interest payments (% of revenue)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972 2.89405685
1973 3.43257443
1974 3.75541647
1975 6.82092903
1976 5.56065574
1977 6.08842263
1978 7.58476057
1979 7.9811134
1980 5.93572686
1981 6.39862304
1982 7.23822975
1983 9.36474543
1984 10.26415797
1985 11.51968083
1986 10.83895275
1987 7.87857554
1988 9.79690614
1989 10.22009663
1990 10.6004794
1991 11.11783949
1992 10.57264743
1993 11.19971375
1994 11.43247038
1995 12.21387269
1996 10.54290071
1997 10.13646136
1998 10.15707986
1999 9.41803826
2000 8.63156583
2001 8.97695411
2002 7.87679159
2003 7.02323331
2004 6.01689511
2005 13.11457315
2006 14.54326803
2007 15.57012361
2008 27.74704969
2009 34.2389094
2010 24.44916432
2011 25.40148313
2012 25.08350362
2013 23.17036468
2014 18.48633929
2015 19.91728853
2016 11.79467504
2017 15.78574158
2018 13.86113963
2019 13.06525504
2020 12.14229441
2021 12.35947739
2022 16.34681539

Iceland | 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
Republic of Iceland
Records
63
Source