South Africa | 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 South Africa
Records
63
Source
South Africa | Interest payments (% of expense)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
7.96156486 1972
8.64445721 1973
6.84840426 1974
6.17173524 1975
7.02865762 1976
7.48216929 1977
8.43091335 1978
8.77090056 1979
9.0635669 1980
10.05940336 1981
10.31577859 1982
10.94347465 1983
12.67526046 1984
13.07106231 1985
13.11099556 1986
13.40136054 1987
13.58823626 1988
15.07185815 1989
14.25726321 1990
15.48773807 1991
15.1193294 1992
15.56547598 1993
16.77731182 1994
18.25123365 1995
17.58707707 1996
19.42213754 1997
19.74766059 1998
18.91212382 1999
18.10600491 2000
16.80167721 2001
14.55833701 2002
12.56919411 2003
11.56132625 2004
10.85935905 2005
9.85031567 2006
8.67309675 2007
7.69760738 2008
7.31227236 2009
7.68019097 2010
7.90376276 2011
8.70387109 2012
8.73775534 2013
9.17941334 2014
9.0989651 2015
10.21501968 2016
10.56345193 2017
10.56256404 2018
11.04141116 2019
11.42542389 2020
12.96943334 2021
2022
South Africa | 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 South Africa
Records
63
Source