April 5 (SeeNews) - Serbia's public-debt-to-GDP ratio slightly increased in February to 47.8% of the gross domestic product (GDP) projected for 2024, up from 47.5% a month earlier, finance ministry figures showed.
Serbia's public debt reached 36.424 billion euro ($39.527 billion) at the end of February, up from 36.200 billion euro a month earlier, the finance ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
At the end of 2023, the debt-to-GDP ratio stood at 52.0%, down from 55.1% at the end of 2022. Still, the debt volume rose to 36.153 billion euro at the end of last year, from 33.326 billion euro at end-2022.
The country's public debt structure follows, in billions of euro, as given by the finance ministry:
|
end-Feb 2024 |
end-Jan 2024 |
Direct liabilities
|
34.580 |
34.333 |
- internal debt |
10.342 |
10.100 |
- external debt |
24.238 |
24.233 |
Indirect liabilities |
1.845 |
1.867 |
- internal debt |
0.521 |
0.524 |
- external debt |
1.324 |
1.343 |
Total public debt |
36.424 |
36.200 |
Direct liabilities
($ = 0.921 euro)