November 13 (SeeNews) - Romania's foreign debt rose to 97.9 billion euro ($110 billion) at the end of September from 97.361 billion euro at end-2017, the central bank, BNR, said on Tuesday.
The end-September figure includes 68 billion euro in long-term foreign debt, down from 68.52 billion euro at the end of 2017, BNR said in a balance of payments report for September, citing provisional data.
Long-term external debt service ratio fell to 20.8% at end-September, compared to 25% at the end of 2017.
Goods and services import cover stood at 4.7 months at end-September, from 5.4 months at end-2017.
The ratio of the BNR’s foreign exchange reserves to short-term external debt by remaining maturity came in at 72.6% at end-September, against 79% at end-2017.
Details follow (in billions of euro):
|
end-September'18 |
end-'17 |
Total external debt |
97.995 |
97.361 |
- long-term external debt |
68.129 |
68.520 |
- short-term external debt |
29.866 |
28.841 |
source: BNR
($= 0.8899 euro)