12.10.2015

According to the official register maintained by the Ministry of Finance the government debt as at the end of August stands at EUR 12,153.6 million. Domestic debt amounted to EUR 4,161.7 million and external debt to EUR 7,891.9 million.

At the end of the reporting period the government debt/gross domestic product (GDP)* ratio was 28.4%, the share of domestic government debt being 10.0% and of external government debt - 18.4% of GDP. In the government debt structure at the end of the period domestic debt amounted to 35.1%, and external debt - to 64.9%

The debt currency structure as of end-August is as follows:  79.1% in EUR, 19.9% in BGN, 0.4% in USD and 0.6% in other currencies.

Government debt payments in August amounted to BGN 16.2 million.

As regards the currency composition of payments since the beginning of the year the greatest is the EUR share - 57.5%, followed by those in USD - 33.4%, in BGN - 8.9% and ¥ - 0.2%.

In August the government guaranteed debt reached EUR 305.8 million, of which EUR 25.0 million were the domestic government guarantees, and the government guaranteed debt/GDP ratio was 0.7%.

The Bulletin can be found in Section "Statistics"/Monthly Government Debt Bulletin.

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