{"id":97489,"date":"2016-04-29T13:36:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T13:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2016\/04\/29\/244588\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:23:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:23:27","slug":"armenias-total-public-debt-grew-by-1-5-in-march-to-5-196-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2016\/04\/29\/97489\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia\u2019s total public debt grew by 1.5% in march to $5.196.1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, April 29. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> At the end of March, 2016 Armenia&#8217;s total public debt stood at $5.196.1 billion, an increase of 1.5% compared to February, according to the National Statistical Service. When compared to the beginning of the year, the total public debt was up by 2.3%.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NSS, the external debt of the country at the end of March 2016 stood at $4.405.7 billion, an increase of 1.5% or $63.6 million from the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>Some $3.917.8 billion of the external debt was owed by the government, an increase of $55.5 million and $487.8 million were owed by the Central Bank, an increase of 8$ million.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia\u2019s domestic debt at the end of March amounted to $790.3 million, an increase of $12 million. Of that amount approximately $702.2 million were owed to resident buyers of government bonds and the debt to holders of foreign currency-denominated bonds stood at $86.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to the state budget, the country&#8217;s public debt in 2016 will make 49.4% of GDP, while the ratio of external debt to GDP will be 42.8%. The total public debt by the end of 2016 is expected to grow to $5.569 billion, of which 86.6% will be external debt. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of March, 2016 Armenia&#8217;s total public debt stood at $5.196.1 billion, an increase of 1.5% compared to February<\/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":[15837,13790],"class_list":{"0":"post-97489","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"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97489","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=97489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97489\/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=97489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}