December 11 (SeeNews) - Romania's foreign debt totalled 77.9 billion euro ($115 billion) at the end of October, up 8.15% from the end of 2008, the central bank said on Friday.
The end-October figure includes 62.904 billion euro in long-term and medium-term foreign debt, which was 22.3% higher compared to end-2008, the central bank said in a statement.
The figure for the long-term and medium-term foreign debt includes government debt and privately-held debt.
Details of Romania's foreign debt follow (in billions of euro):
|
end-Oct'09 |
end-2008 |
Total foreign debt |
77.900 |
72.032 |
Short-term foreign debt |
14.996 |
20.592 |
Long/medium term foreign debt |
62.904 |
51.440 |
- Public debt |
11.439 |
9.010 |
- State-guaranteed debt |
1.540 |
1.720 |
- Non-guaranteed debt |
37.162 |
35.243 |
- Foreign resident deposits |
7.151 |
5.467 |
- debt to IMF* |
5.612 |
0.0 |
*Loans under Romania's stand-by agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) signed on May 4.
NOTES: Romania paid 8.242 billion euro on its long-term and medium-term foreign debt in the first ten months of the year. The long-term and medium-term foreign debt servicing rate, calculated as the ratio of debt payments to total exports, was 27.9% in the same period, compared to 31.5% at the end of 2008.
($=0.6778 euro)