SOFIA (Bulgaria), August 24 (SeeNews) – Bulgaria's gross foreign debt edged up by an annual 0.01% to 34.61 billion euro ($40.8 billion) at the end of June, the central bank said on Thursday.
Gross foreign debt at the end of June was equivalent to 70.0% of the projected 2017 gross domestic product, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said in a statement.
Bulgaria's gross foreign debt was equivalent to 73.1% of GDP at the end of June 2016.
Month-on-month, Bulgaria's external debt increased by 0.5% in June.
Details follow (in millions of euro):
|
end-June |
pct of GDP |
pct change y/y |
pct change m/m |
Government |
6,394.7 |
12.9 |
-2.9 |
-0.5 |
Central bank |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Commercial banks |
4,608.0 |
9.3 |
22.0 |
5.5 |
Other sectors |
11,356.4 |
23.0 |
-1.1 |
-0.6 |
Direct investment: intercompany lending |
12,256.4 |
24.8 |
-4.0 |
0.2 |
TOTAL |
34,451.8 |
70.0 |
0.01 |
0.5 |
Source:BNB
($ = 0.8475 euro)