Serbia's public debt reached 36.342 billion euro ($39.042 billion) at the end of March, down from 36.424 billion euro a month earlier, the finance ministry said in a statement earlier this week.
At the end of 2023, the debt-to-GDP ratio stood at 52.0%, down from 55.1% at the end of 2022. Still, the debt volume rose to 36.153 billion euro at the end of last year, from 33.326 billion euro at end-2022.
The country's public debt structure follows, in billions of euro, as given by the finance ministry:
end-March 2024 | end-Feb 2024 | |
Total public debt | 36.342 | 36.424 |
- Direct liabilities | 34.532 | 34.580 |
-- internal debt | 10.373 | 10.342 |
-- external debt | 24.159 | 24.237 |
- Indirect liabilities | 1.810 | 1.845 |
-- internal debt | 0.496 | 0.521 |
-- external debt | 1.314 | 1.324 |
($ = 0.931 euro)