{"id":265537,"date":"2025-07-30T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=265537"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:16:20","slug":"armenias-state-budget-had-a-deficit-of-39-2-billion-drams-in-the-first-half-of-the-year-according-to-the-finance-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2025\/07\/30\/265537\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s state budget had a deficit of 39.2 billion drams in the first half of the year, according to the Finance Ministry."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>YEREVAN, July 30. \/ARKA\/. The Armenian government\u2019s budget for the first half of the year was executed with a deficit of 39.2 billion drams, which is significantly lower than the projected deficit of 325.3 billion drams, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Finance today. The ministry noted that a surplus of 11 billion drams was recorded in the same period of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Finance Ministry reported that state budget revenues for the first half of 2025 totaled 1.433 trillion drams, surpassing the revised target by 2.2%. Compared to the same period last year, revenues increased by 15.2%, or 189.4 billion drams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expenses totaled 1,472.3 billion drams, or 85.2% of the planned amount. Compared to the same period in 2024, expenses increased by 19.4%, or 239.6 billion drams. (1 USD = 383.94 AMD).-0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Armenian government\u2019s budget for the first half of the year was executed with a deficit of 39.2 billion drams, which is significantly lower than the projected deficit of 325.3 billion drams, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Finance today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":199867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12315,12139,9216],"tags":[15837,12688,12335],"class_list":{"0":"post-265537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-announces","8":"category-economy-en","9":"category-news","10":"tag-armenia-2","11":"tag-armenia-analyst-inflation","12":"tag-budget"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265537","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}