29.01.2016

According to the official register kept by the Ministry of Finance, the government debt as at end-December 2015 stands at EUR 11,613.5 million. Domestic debt amounts to EUR 3,723.9 million and external debt to EUR 7,889.7 million.

At the end of the reporting period the government debt/gross domestic product (GDP)* ratio is 26.4%, with the share of domestic government debt being 8.5% and of external government debt - 17.9% of GDP. In the government debt structure, domestic debt at the end of the period amounts to 32.1%, and external debt - to 67.9%.

The debt currency structure as of end-December is as follows:  75.9% in EUR, 23.0% in BGN, 0.6% in USD and 0.4% in other currencies.

Government debt payments in December amount to BGN 872.5 million.

As regards the currency composition of payments, since the beginning of the year the greatest is the EUR share - 65.5%, followed by those in USD - 24.2%, in BGN - 10.1% and in ¥ - 0.3%.

In December, the government guaranteed debt reaches EUR 299.7 million, of which EUR 29.7 million domestic government guarantees, with the government guaranteed debt/GDP ratio being 0.7%.

The Bulletin can be found in the Statistics Section.

*Forecast GDP data as per the updated autumn forecast of the Ministry of Finance for 2015.