October 23 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's gross foreign debt totalled 36.138 billion euro ($54.359 billion) at the end of August, 2.3% down from the end of 2008, the central bank said on Friday.
At the end of August, Bulgaria's gross foreign debt was equivalent to 107.9% of the country's gross domestic product projected for 2009, the central bank said in a statement.
Bulgaria's long-term foreign debt was 23.945 billion euro and short-term debt totalled 12.193 billion euro at the end of August.
BULGARIA'S GROSS FOREIGN DEBT (in millions of euro):
|
|
End-Aug |
End-'08 |
| TOTAL DEBT |
36,137.5 |
36,973.7 |
| PUBLIC FOREIGN DEBT |
4,133.6 |
3,972.5 |
| PRIVATE FOREIGN DEBT |
32,003.9 |
33,001.2 |
| Commercial Banks Debt |
7,968.1 |
9,077.1 |
| - Short-Term Debt |
6,264.3 |
6,862.3 |
| - Long-Term Debt |
1,703.8 |
2,214.8 |
| GENERAL GOVERNMENT |
|
|
| - Short-Term Debt |
0.0 |
0.0 |
| - Long-Term Debt |
2,764.0 |
2,595.6 |
| Central Bank |
0.0 |
0.0 |
| Other Sectors |
11,734.9 |
11,978.1 |
| - Short-Term Debt |
5,928.4 |
6,249.0 |
| - Long-Term Debt |
5,806.5 |
5,729.2 |
| Direct Investments: |
|
|
| Intercompany Loans |
13,670.5 |
13,322.9 |
| LONG-TERM DEBT |
23,944.8 |
23,862.5 |
| SHORT-TERM DEBT |
12,192.7 |
13,111.2 |
| DEBT/GDP, pct |
107.9 |
108.4 |
($ = 0.6648 euro)