September 13 (SeeNews) - Romania's gross foreign debt increased to 158.82 billion euro ($170.5 billion) at the end of July from 144.5 billion euro at the end of 2022, the central bank said.
The end-July figure includes 115.22 billion euro in long-term foreign debt, up from 97.72 billion euro at the end of last year, BNR said in a monthly balance of payments report published on Wednesday.
Long-term external debt service ratio came in at 15.5% at the end of July, compared to 16.2% at the end of 2022.
The ratio of the BNR’s foreign exchange reserves to short-term external debt by remaining maturity increased to 95.7% at the end of July, from 80.2% at the end of last year.
Details follow (in billions of euro):
| |
end-July |
end-2022 |
| Total external debt |
158.820 |
144.561 |
| -long-term external debt |
115.220 |
97.722 |
| -short-term external debt |
43.600 |
46.839 |
Source: BNR