Debt service / total public service salaries (DS/WS)

In all measured indicators the numerator is the debt service annual amount in current US dollars. Its exact "official" definition runs as follows:

Total debt service is the sum of principal repayments and interest actually paid in foreign currency, goods, or services on long-term debt, interest paid on short-term debt, and repayments (repurchases and charges) to the IMF. Data are in current U.S. dollars. Source : World Bank, Global Development Finance.

The Debt service / total public service salaries (DS/WS) refers to the ratio between the debt service annual amount in current US dollars and total public service salaries during the same year. Total public service salaries are defined as follows:

Salaries (% of total expenditure) consist of all payments in cash, but not in kind, to employees in return for services rendered, before deduction of withholding taxes and employee contributions to social security and pension funds. Data are shown for central government only.
(Source : International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.)

DS/WS = Total debt service (current USD) / [(Salaries (% of total expenditure) / 100) • (Total expenditure (% of GDP) / 100) • GDP (current USD)]

A ratio DS/WS = 0,457 means that the debt service represents 45,7% of the total public service salaries. A ratio DS/WS = 3,487 means that the expenses due to debt service is 3,487 times more important than the total public service salaries.

Mode of interpretation : DS/WS measures the debt service burden in relation to the country’s public service salaries. It shows to what extent the debt service results in civil servants’ redundancies.

####	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Afghanistan
Albania		0,263
Algeria	1,295	1,391	1,504	1,452	1,303	0,959
Angola
Argentina	2,525	3,170	3,588	3,890	3,731	2,327	4,669	3,841
Armenia							4,024	1,095
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan	0,981	0,240	0,723
Bahamas, The
Bahrain
Bangladesh			0,683			0,638	0,563	0,534
Barbados							0,192	0,213
Belarus	0,413	0,363	0,674	0,696	0,571	0,492	0,421	0,391
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan	0,312	0,381	0,266	0,201	0,188	0,167	0,172	0,261
Bolivia	1,192	0,969	0,937	1,301	1,045	0,831	0,781	0,883
Bosnia and Herzegovina							0,208	0,188
Botswana
Brazil	2,015	2,014
Bulgaria	4,721	3,813	3,310	3,434	3,817	2,583	1,474	2,531
Burkina Faso
Burundi	0,417	0,486	0,522
Cambodia						0,144	0,163	0,172
Cameroon		1,226	1,174
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile	1,263	1,161	1,524	1,857	2,227	2,648	2,616	2,533
China
Colombia	1,807	1,825	2,826			1,638	2,331	2,436
Comoros
Congo, Dem. Rep.	0,038	5,886	10,841	24,572	22,222
Congo, Rep.	0,629	0,236	0,153	0,286	0,651	0,133	0,234
Costa Rica	0,562	0,488	0,450	0,493	0,492	0,402	0,481	0,385
Cote d’Ivoire	2,056	2,080	2,232	1,686	0,988	1,107	0,616
Croatia	0,543	0,765	0,742	1,020	1,400	1,570	1,336	1,373
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic	2,870	3,312	3,756	3,477	2,923	1,615	1,893	2,537
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominican Republic	0,522	0,380	0,363	0,400		0,434	0,935
Ecuador
Egypt, Arab Rep.	0,436
El Salvador		0,587	0,356	0,373	2,994	0,410	0,496	0,551
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia	0,987	1,677	2,256	2,017	2,422
Ethiopia	0,294	0,368	0,512			0,390
Fiji								0,049
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia, The
Georgia	0,892	4,185	2,355	3,568	2,011	2,527	2,948	1,791
Germany
Ghana						0,314	0,653	0,288
Greece
Guatemala						0,512	0,542	0,640
Guinea		1,086	0,934
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti	0,330	0,246	0,285	0,237
Honduras
Hong Kong, China
Hungary	4,955	4,428	4,243	4,764		3,826	3,030
Iceland
India	1,738	1,730	1,362	1,389	1,189	1,653	2,198	1,762
Indonesia	5,180	12,130	7,256			7,414	3,321	3,713
Iran, Islamic Rep.	0,554	0,242	0,411	0,276		0,137	0,140	0,130
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica	0,767	0,586	0,712	0,758	0,676	0,711	0,769
Japan
Jordan	0,786	0,746	0,462	0,590	0,519
Kazakhstan			5,514	16,466	13,450	13,522	15,841	15,941
Kenya						0,395
Korea, Dem. Rep.
Korea, Rep.	1,307
Kuwait
Kyrgyz Republic	0,806	1,238	1,690	2,705
Lao PDR
Latvia	1,210	1,174	1,428	2,252	1,875	1,610	1,879	2,215
Lebanon	0,582	0,449	0,576			1,237	1,778
Lesotho	0,305	0,338				0,662	0,451	0,280
Liberia
Libya
Lithuania	0,716	1,809	1,711	2,300	3,895	1,756	2,339	1,498
Luxembourg
Macedonia, FYR
Madagascar	1,693	0,897	1,075	0,757		0,063	0,047	0,075
Malawi
Malaysia	1,380					1,268	1,550
Maldives	1,247	0,644	0,569	0,499	0,547	0,532	0,481	0,595
Mali
Malta	0,155	0,337
Mauritania
Mauritius	0,619	0,720	0,536	1,339	0,565	0,681	0,564	0,512
Mexico	4,477	2,813	2,760	3,813
Moldova	2,963	5,894	8,748	4,274	4,592		1,767	2,335
Mongolia	3,162	1,292	0,855	1,196	1,402		2,486
Morocco	0,873	0,705	0,738
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua	2,994	1,928				0,601	0,709	0,464
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Oman	0,727	0,866	0,679	0,549
Pakistan		4,194	5,928	5,613	6,037	5,800	5,138	6,612
Panama	1,790	0,801	0,786	0,975
Papua New Guinea	1,281	0,835	0,671			1,509
Paraguay	0,410	0,389	0,383	0,523	0,614	0,762	0,763	1,007
Peru	1,877	1,061	1,430	1,398	1,179	1,548	1,069	1,115
Philippines		1,119	1,509	1,635	2,030
Poland	0,353	0,626	2,007	2,521	3,019	1,715	1,902
Portugal
Qatar
Romania	2,354	1,788	2,097	1,141	1,901	1,705
Russian Federation		1,444	2,393	1,548	2,041	1,076	1,074	0,937
Rwanda
Samoa
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal	0,899	1,158	0,874	0,877	0,881
Serbia and Montenegro						0,295
Seychelles	0,170	0,255	0,289	0,179		0,931	0,916	0,583
Sierra Leone	0,544	0,671	0,411
Singapore
Slovak Republic	1,286	1,576	1,609	2,527	2,395		2,256
Slovenia
Somalia
South Africa	0,894	0,670	0,717	0,826	1,044	1,022	0,627	0,432
Spain
Sri Lanka	0,732	0,718	0,890	0,873	0,807	0,774
Sudan		0,230	0,188
Suriname
Swaziland			0,234	0,259		0,194	0,137
Sweden
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic
Tajikistan		9,271	9,510	3,593	5,133		4,627	3,784
Tanzania
Thailand	1,518	1,812	2,122	1,923	2,954		1,894	1,391
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia	0,674	0,643	0,666	0,893		0,608	0,555	0,634
Turkey	0,834	0,983	1,115	1,277	1,776
Turkmenistan
Uganda			1,107	0,633	0,445	0,488	0,555
Ukraine			3,040	3,533	1,567	1,545	1,412	1,279
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay	0,740	1,140	0,952	1,406	1,666	1,509	1,255	1,945
Uzbekistan
Venezuela, RB	2,442	1,567	1,553	1,287	1,250	1,732	2,187
Vietnam
Yemen, Rep.	0,154	0,169	0,198
Zambia
Zimbabwe	0,642

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