February 13 (SeeNews) - Romania's foreign debt increased to 106 billion euro ($115 billion) at the end of 2019 from 99.841 billion euro at the end of 2018, the central bank, BNR, said on Thursday.
The end-December figure includes 72.740 billion euro in long-term foreign debt, up from 68.286 billion euro at the end of 2018, BNR said in a monthly balance of payments report.
Long-term external debt service ratio fell to 18% at end-December, compared to 22.3% at end-2018.
Goods and services import cover fell at 4.6 months at end-December, from 4.8 months at end-2018.
The ratio of the BNR’s foreign exchange reserves to short-term external debt by remaining maturity came in at 72.2% at end-2019, against 74.1% at end-2018.
Details follow (in billions of euro):
|
Jan-Nov '19 |
end-'18 |
Total external debt |
106 |
99.841 |
- long-term external debt |
72.740 |
68.286 |
- short-term external debt |
33.260 |
31.555 |
source: BNR
($= 0.9191 euro)