{"id":271516,"date":"2026-03-23T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=271516"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:38:15","slug":"armenias-public-debt-to-gdp-ratio-in-2025-was-47-3-finance-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2026\/03\/23\/271516\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s public debt-to-GDP ratio in 2025 was 47.3% &#8211; Finance Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, March 23. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> The public debt-to-GDP ratio by the end of 2025 is 47.3%, below the target of 50%, stated Armenian Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Compared to the previous year, (this figure) decreased by 0.7 percentage points,&#8221; he said at an extraordinary meeting of the parliamentary committee on financial, credit, and budgetary issues on Monday, presenting a report on the implementation of the government&#8217;s 2025 program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Hovhannisyan, net financing of the state budget deficit from domestic borrowing last year amounted to 297 billion drams, or 67.7% of borrowed funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister reported that, as a result, as of the end of 2025, the share of debt in dram terms was 52.9%, which is 2.2% higher than the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About Public Debt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Ministry of Finance, Armenia&#8217;s total public debt as of December 31, 2025, amounted to $14,531.3 million, compared to $12,842.2 million as of December 31, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking into account the reduction in budget deficits and high nominal GDP growth, the international rating agency S&amp;P Global Ratings projected that Armenia&#8217;s public debt, net of liquid assets, would remain generally stable at a moderate level of 44% of GDP in the medium term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public debt-to-GDP ratio by the end of 2025 is 47.3%, below the target of 50%, stated Armenian Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":264180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[12713],"class_list":{"0":"post-271516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-state-debt"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271516","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=271516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}