United Kingdom | 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
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Records
63
Source
United Kingdom | Interest payments (% of revenue)
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1963
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1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
8.28049411 1972
9.21939834 1973
8.91789016 1974
9.23416241 1975
9.69642048 1976
9.59977666 1977
10.88343848 1978
11.79149955 1979
11.51035174 1980
11.48470907 1981
10.22592927 1982
10.54470075 1983
10.95242412 1984
10.85941811 1985
10.88435374 1986
11.53373988 1987
10.72211507 1988
10.13848198 1989
8.92450659 1990
7.48963586 1991
7.6026395 1992
8.3916052 1993
9.06443592 1994
10.05822596 1995
10.09771158 1996
10.23246103 1997
9.69628811 1998
8.06958976 1999
7.51274875 2000
6.62629426 2001
6.02056851 2002
6.04342813 2003
5.95531485 2004
6.1335828 2005
6.2514235 2006
6.78024621 2007
6.68007108 2008
6.28309738 2009
7.88396654 2010
9.94432115 2011
8.96428913 2012
8.79018352 2013
8.47272317 2014
7.34272123 2015
7.57444685 2016
8.19535582 2017
7.59149195 2018
6.70766865 2019
6.05866144 2020
8.14626764 2021
2022
United Kingdom | 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
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Records
63
Source