06.01.2015

According to the official government debt register kept by the Ministry of Finance, as of end-November the government debt amounted to EUR 9 597,7 million. Domestic debt amounted to EUR 4 018,1 million and external debt - to EUR 5 579,6 million.

At the end of the reporting period the government debt/ gross domestic product (GDP)* ratio was 23,1%, the share of external government debt being 13,4% and of domestic government debt - 9,7% of GDP.  In the government debt structure at the end of the period domestic debt amounted to 41,9%, and external debt - to 58,1%

            At end-November the currency composition of the debt was as follows:

-  58.8% - in Euro;

-  30.8% - in BGN;

-  9.6% - in US Dollars;

-  0.8% - in other currencies.

The payments under the government debt in November amounted to BGN 43,5 million. As regards the currency composition of payments since the beginning of the year the greatest is the BGN share - 80,1%, followed by those in Euro - 15,0%, US$  - 4,5%, and ¥ - 0,3%.

            In November 2014 the government guaranteed debt reached EUR 338,3 million, of which EUR 23,7 million were the domestic government guarantees, and the government guaranteed debt/ GDP ratio was 0,8 per cent.

You can find the bulletin in "Statistics section".