Оctober 13 (SeeNews) - Romania's foreign debt totalled 76.918 billion euro ($114 billion) at the end of August, up 4.8% from the end of 2008, the central bank said on Tuesday.
The end-August figure includes 60.068 billion euro in long-term and medium-term foreign debt, which was 17.3% higher compared to end-2008, the central bank said in a statement.
The figure for the long-term and medium-term foreign debt includes government debt and privately-held debt.
Details of Romania's foreign debt follow (in billions of euro):
|
|
end-Aug'09 |
end-2008 |
| Total foreign debt |
76.918 |
73.421 |
| Short-term foreign debt |
16.850 |
22.200 |
| Long/medium term foreign debt |
60.068 |
51.221 |
| - Public debt |
10.248 |
9.012 |
| - State-guaranteed debt |
1.596 |
1.721 |
| - Non-guaranteed debt |
36.674 |
35.021 |
| - Foreign resident deposits |
6.775 |
5.476 |
| - debt to IMF* |
4.775 |
0.0 |
* Loans under Romania's stand-by agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) signed on May 4.
NOTES: Romania paid 6.579 billion euro on its long-term and medium-term foreign debt in the first eight months of the year. The long-term and medium-term foreign debt servicing rate, calculated as the ratio of debt payments to total exports, was 28.2% in the same period, compared to 29.3% at the end of 2008.
($=0.6759 euro)