September 11 (SeeNews) - Romania's foreign debt totalled 76.775 billion euro ($112 billion) at the end of July, up 4.6% from the end of 2008, the central bank said on Friday.
The end-July figure includes 59.757 billion euro in long-term and medium-term foreign debt, which was 16.7% higher compared to end-2008, the central bank said in a statement.
The figure for the long-term and medium-term foreign debt includes government debt and privately-held debt.
Details of Romania's foreign debt follow (in billions of euro):
|
end-July'09 |
end-2008 |
Total foreign debt |
76.775 |
73.421 |
Short-term foreign debt |
17.018 |
22.200 |
Long/medium term foreign debt |
59.757 |
51.221 |
- Public debt |
10.227 |
9.012 |
- State-guaranteed debt |
1.611 |
1.721 |
- Non-guaranteed debt |
36.574 |
35.021 |
- Foreign resident deposits |
6.482 |
5.476 |
- debt to IMF* |
4.813 |
0.0 |
* Loans under Romania's stand-by agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) signed on May 4.
NOTES: Romania paid 5.794 billion euro on its long-term and medium-term foreign debt in the first seven months of the year. The long-term and medium-term foreign debt servicing rate, calculated as the ratio of debt payments to total exports, was 28.1% in the same period, compared to 29.3% at the end of 2008.
($=0.6856 euro)