November 13 (SeeNews) - Romania's foreign debt rose to 93.204 billion euro ($108.5 billion) at the end of September from 92.91 billion euro at the end of 2016, the central bank, BNR, said on Monday.
The end-September figure includes 68.96 billion euro in long-term foreign debt, down 1% compared to the end of 2016, BNR said in a balance of payments report for September, citing provisional data.
Short-term external debt at end-September amounted to 24.23 billion euro, or 26% of total external debt, up 4.2% against end-2016.
Long-term external debt service ratio fell to 22.6% at the end of September from 30% at end-2016.
The ratio of BNR’s foreign exchange reserves to short-term external debt by remaining maturity was 89.5% at end-September against 90.5% at end-2016.
The cover of imports of goods and services decreased to 5.6 months at end-September from 6.3 months at end-2016.
Details follow (in billions of euro):
|
end-Sept 2017 |
end-2016 |
Total external debt |
93.204 |
92.910 |
- long-term external debt |
68.965 |
69.645 |
- short-term external debt |
24.239 |
23.265 |
source: BNR
($=0.8584 euro)