November 11 (SeeNews) - Romania's foreign debt totalled 78.125 billion euro ($117.5 billion) at the end of September, up 8.5% from the end of 2008, the central bank said on Wednesday.
The end-September figure includes 62.863 billion euro in long-term and medium-term foreign debt, which was 22.2% higher compared to end-2008, the central bank said in a statement.
The figure for the long-term and medium-term foreign debt includes government debt and privately-held debt.
Details of Romania's foreign debt follow (in billions of euro):
|
end-Sept'09 |
end-2008 |
Total foreign debt |
78.125 |
72.032 |
Short-term foreign debt |
15.262 |
20.592 |
Long/medium term foreign debt |
62.863 |
51.440 |
- Public debt |
11.204 |
9.010 |
- State-guaranteed debt |
1.557 |
1.720 |
- Non-guaranteed debt |
37.271 |
35.243 |
- Foreign resident deposits |
7.189 |
5.467 |
- debt to IMF* |
5.642 |
0.0 |
* Loans under Romania's stand-by agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) signed on May 4.
NOTES: Romania paid 7.202 billion euro on its long-term and medium-term foreign debt in the first nine months of the year. The long-term and medium-term foreign debt servicing rate, calculated as the ratio of debt payments to total exports, was 27.4% in the same period, compared to 31.5% at the end of 2008.
($=0.6647 euro)