Interest payments are swallowing the biggest portion of rich nations’ economic output since at least 2007, outstripping their spending on defence and housing, according to figures from the OECD.
Debt service costs as a percentage of GDP for the 38 OECD countries climbed to 3.3 per cent in 2024, a sharp rise from 2.4 per cent in 2021, according to the group’s Global Debt Report on Thursday. In contrast, the World Bank estimates that the same group spent 2.4 per cent of GDP on their militaries in 2023.
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