August 13 (SeeNews) - Romania's foreign debt rose to 95.371 billion euro ($108.5 billion) at the end of June from 93.47 billion euro at end-2017, the central bank, BNR, said on Monday.
The end-June figure includes 66.9 billion euro in long-term foreign debt, down from 68.61 billion euro at the end of 2017, BNR said in a balance of payments report for June, citing provisional data.
Long-term external debt service ratio fell to 22.8% at end-June, compared to 23.9% at the end of 2017.
Goods and services import cover stood at 4.9 months at end-June, from 5.4 months at end-2017.
The ratio of the BNR’s foreign exchange reserves to short-term external debt by remaining maturity edged down to 76.2% at end-June, against 87.2% at end-2017.
Details follow (in billions of euro):
|
end-June'18 |
end-'17 |
Total external debt |
95.371 |
93.477 |
- long-term external debt |
66.902 |
68.613 |
- short-term external debt |
28.469 |
24.864 |
source: BNR
($= 0.8783 euro)