{"id":135530,"date":"2021-09-27T15:07:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2021\/09\/27\/250009\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:45:32","slug":"armenias-public-debt-grew-to-8-869-billion-at-the-end-of-first-half-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2021\/09\/27\/135530\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia\u2019s public debt grew to $8.869 billion at the end of first half, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, September 27. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Armenia\u2019s public debt stood at 4.394.5 trillion drams ($8.869 billion) on June 30, 2021, having grown by 229.2 billion drams ($900.6 million) from the same time span of last year, according to a report on the execution of the government budget in the first half of 2021, circulated in parliament today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, the public growth was due to a 6.1% rise in government debt, while the external debt of the Central Bank dropped by 3.5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compared to the same period in 2020, public debt indicators grew disproportionately by 18% and 14.9%,&nbsp;&nbsp;due to the difference in the exchange rate of the national currency, the dram, versus&nbsp;&nbsp;the US dollar at the end of the first half of 2020 and 2021, which grew by 2.7% from 482.44 drams per one USD to 495.37 drams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The debt of the Armenian government amounted to 4.161.6 trillion drams ($8.400.9 billion), and the external debt of the Central Bank \u2013 to 231.9 billion drams ($468.1 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armenia\u2019s external public debt increased by $618.2 million (by 10.2%), while its share in the overall external public debt decreased from 76% to 75.3%. The external debt of the government also increased by $610.1 million, and the external debt of the Central Bank &#8211; by $8.1 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The domestic public debt as of June 30, 2021 compared to last year&#8217;s indicators, increased by 87.9 billion drams (8.8%), while its share in the overall public debt increased from 24% to 24.7%. ($1 &#8211; 480.82 drams) &#8211; 0&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia\u2019s public debt stood at 4.394.5 trillion drams ($8.869 billion) on June 30, 2021, having grown by 229.2 billion drams ($900.6 million) from the same time span of last year, according to a report on the execution of the government budget in the first half of 2021, circulated in parliament today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,15419,13790,460],"class_list":{"0":"post-135530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","10":"tag-growth-2","11":"tag-public-debt","12":"tag-460"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135530","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=135530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}