Armenia’s total public debt exceeded $13.7 billion as of May 2025

YEREVAN, July 8. /ARKA/. Armenia’s total public debt as of May 31, 2025 amounted to $13,735.617 million, having increased by $127.774 million compared to April 30, 2025. This is stated in the report of the National Statistical Committee of Armenia.

At the same time, as of December 31, 2024, the public debt amounted to $12,842.240 million.

At the same time, in dram terms, as of May 31 of this year, the public debt amounted to 5,273,652.9 million drams, having decreased by 25,921.7 million drams over the month. As of December 31, 2024, the public debt amounted to 5,092,718.5 million drams.

In the structure of the total debt, $6,989.302 million is external debt (a decline over the month – by $73.026 million), and internal debt in May increased by $200.800 million and amounted to $6,746.315 million. In dram equivalent, external debt at the end of April decreased by 66,951.1 million drams and amounted to 2,683,472.8 million drams, and internal debt increased by 41,029.4 million drams to 2,590,180.2 million drams.

In the structure of external debt, the government debt decreased by $60.751 million and amounted to $6,481.350 million as of the end of May 2025, and the Central Bank debt decreased by $12.275 million to $507.952 million. At the same time, in dram equivalent, the government debt decreased by 59,371.8 million drams to 2,488,449.7 million drams, and the Central Bank debt decreased by 7,579.3 million drams and amounted to 195,023.1 million drams.

In the structure of the domestic debt, $6,287.183 million (an increase of $197.283 million) falls to government treasury bonds purchased by residents (in the dram equivalent – 2,413,901.1 million drams, an increase of 42,189.4 million drams), government bonds in foreign currency purchased by residents amounted to $439.020 million with an increase of $4.165 million (in the dram equivalent – 168,557.3 million drams, a decrease of 796.9 million drams), internal guarantees accounted for $20.112 million with a decrease of $0.648 million (in the dram equivalent – 7,721.7 million drams, a decrease of 363.0 million drams). The indicator for loans and borrowings is not presented.

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