November 22 (SeeNews) - Serbia's president Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday the country's central government debt is currently equivalent to 62.7% of the projected gross domestic product (GDP) for this year.
"Yesterday we repaid $770 million (655.4 million euro) of our debts, today our public debt amounts to 62.7% of GDP," Vucic said in a video file posted on the website of Serbian news agency Tanjug.
Serbia's central government debt has decreased to 24.1 billion euro at the end of September from 24.82 billion euro at the end of 2016, according to finance ministry data.
The debt was equivalent to 64.6% of the projected GDP for 2017, down from 73.0% at the end of 2016, data posted on the website of the finance ministry shows.
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