{"id":130165,"date":"2020-08-20T12:15:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2020\/08\/20\/249479\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:42:12","slug":"armenias-public-debt-grows-by-6-million-over-one-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2020\/08\/20\/130165\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia\u2019s public debt grows by $6 million over one month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, August 20. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Armenia\u2019s public debt increased by $ 5.9 million from May to June 2020 and reached $ 7.721 billion, according to the data published by the National Statistical Committee of Armenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, Armenia&#8217;s public debt has grown by $ 397.6 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, there have been changes in the structure of the state debt, since a decrease in external and an increase in internal loans were recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country\u2019s foreign debt amounted to $ 5.984 billion at the end of June 2020, decreasing by $ 13.5 million, compared to the previous month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armenia&#8217;s domestic debt at the end of June amounted to $ 1.737 billion, an increase of $ 19.3 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the ministry of finance, the level of public debt to GDP in Armenia at the end of 2019 amounted to 53.6%, but it is completely manageable and there is the possibility of new funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armenian Finance Minister Atom Janjughazyan said earlier that the country will increase the debt burden by 260 billion drams amid COVID-19, and as a result, the budget deficit in 2020 may reach 324 billion drams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the National Statistical Committee, the total public debt of Armenia at the end of December 2019 amounted to $ 7,324.167 million, having increased by $ 158.091 million over the month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country\u2019s foreign debt amounted to about $ 5,789.729 million in late December 2019 after increasing by $163.477 million over one month. Around $5 300.412 here is the government\u2019s debt (up by $186.278 million) and $489.317 million is the debt of the central bank (a decrease of $ 22.801 million). Armenia&#8217;s domestic debt at the end of December reached $ 1,534.439 million, having decreased by $ 5.386 million ($ 1 \u2013 AMD 486.3). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia\u2019s public debt increased by $ 5.9 million from May to June 2020 and reached $ 7.721 billion, according to the data published by the National Statistical Committee of Armenia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,13790,15497],"class_list":{"0":"post-130165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-public-debt","11":"tag-15497"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}