SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), November 7 (SeeNews) – Bosnia and Herzegovina's public debt increased to 11.8 billion marka ($6.9 billion/ 6.0 billion euro) at end of June, equivalent to 34.92% of GDP, the state-level government said.
The country's public debt rose by 3.94% compared to the end of December 2017, the Council of Ministers said in a statement earlier this week.
Foreign debt amounted to 8.3 billion marka at the end of June, while domestic debt totalled 3.5 billion marka.
The country's bigger entity, the Federation, had a share of 50.2% of the overall public debt, the debt of the Serb Republic entity accounted for 48.7%, while the debt of the Brcko District had a share of 0.38% of total debt. The debt of Bosnia's state-level institutions was equal to 0.64% of overall debt.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is made up of two autonomous entities - the Serb Republic and the Federation, and the self-governing Brcko District.
(1 euro = 1.95583 Bosnian marka)