July 16 (SeeNews) - Romania's foreign debt rose to 96.040 billion euro ($111.7 billion) at the end of May from 93.47 billion euro at end-2017, the central bank, BNR, said on Monday.
The end-May figure includes 67.54 billion euro in long-term foreign debt, down from 68.61 billion euro at the end of 2017, BNR said in a balance of payments report for May, citing provisional data.
Long-term external debt service ratio fell to 18.9% at end-May, compared to 23.9% at the end of 2017.
Goods and services import cover stood at 5.2 months at end-May, from 5.4 months at end-2017.
The ratio of the BNR’s foreign exchange reserves to short-term external debt by remaining maturity edged down to 76.6% at end-May, against 87.2% at end-2017.
Details follow (in billions of euro):
|
end-May '18 |
end-'17 |
Total external debt |
96.040 |
93.477 |
- long-term external debt |
67.543 |
68.613 |
- short-term external debt |
28.497 |
24.864 |
source: BNR
($= 0.8599 euro)