{"id":249717,"date":"2021-03-09T14:53:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2021\/03\/09\/249717\/"},"modified":"2021-03-09T14:53:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T14:53:02","slug":"armenias-public-debt-grows-by-56-391-million-to-about-8-02-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2021\/03\/09\/249717\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s public debt grows by $56.391 million to about $8.02 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, March 9. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Armenia&#8217;s overall public debt as of January 31, 2021 stood at $8,024.878 billion, an increase of $56.391 million compared to December 31, 2020, according to the numbers, released today by the National Statistical Committee (NSC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said calculated in Armenian national currency, the dram, the country&#8217;s public debt decreased by 5.198 billion drams from the previous month to 4 trillion 159 billion drams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official data, about $6.06 billion of that amount was external debt, which has grown by $15.265 million from December, 2020, while the domestic debt in January 2021 increased by $41.126 million to $1,956.466 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Armenian drams,&nbsp;&nbsp;it decreased by 18, 237.9 billion drams to 3 trillion 145 billion drams as of January 31, 2021, while the domestic debt increased by 13 billion drams to 1,013,977.4 trillion drams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to NSC, the government&#8217;s external debt decreased by $24.454 million to $5,568.748 billion in January 2021. Calculated in Armenian drams, the debt decreased by 36, 836.3 billion drams to 2 trillion 886 billion drams. The Central Bank&#8217;s debt&nbsp;&nbsp;increased by $39.719 million to $499.664 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About&nbsp;&nbsp;$1,876.199 billion of the debt (an increase of $41.426 million from the previous month) were owed to resident holders of government bonds. The debt to holders of government bonds in foreign currency stood at $80.267 million (a decrease of $0.3 million).&nbsp;&nbsp;($1 &#8211; 525.46 drams). \u20130&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia&#8217;s overall public debt as of January 31, 2021 stood at $8,024.878 billion, an increase of $56.391 million compared to December 31, 2020, according to the numbers, released today by the National Statistical Committee (NSC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,13790,460],"class_list":{"0":"post-249717","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-460"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249717","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=249717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}