Bulgaria - Gross External Debt





Bulgaria: Gross External Debt

Mnemonic GDBTEXT.IBGR
Unit Mil. EUR, NSA
Adjustments Not Seasonally Adjusted
Monthly 1.5 %
Data Dec 2023 45,069
Nov 2023 44,402

Series Information

Source Bulgarian National Bank (BNB)
Release External Debt
Frequency Monthly
Start Date 1/31/2015
End Date 12/31/2023

Bulgaria: Government

Reference Last Previous Units Frequency
Outstanding Public Debt Jan 2024 41,254 41,381 Mil. BGN, NSA Monthly
Outstanding Public Debt - Domestic Jan 2024 10,674 10,800 Mil. BGN, NSA Monthly
Outstanding Public Debt - Foreign Jan 2024 30,579 30,581 Mil. BGN, NSA Monthly
Gross External Debt Dec 2023 45,069 44,402 Mil. EUR, NSA Monthly
Government Budget Balance 2023 Q3 -908.46 -795.5 Mil. BGN, NSA Quarterly
Government Expenditures 2023 Q3 17,961 17,491 Mil. BGN, NSA Quarterly
Government Revenues 2023 Q3 17,053 16,695 Mil. BGN, NSA Quarterly

Release Information

For Bulgaria, external debt (detailed by institutional sector and short/long-term), quarterly, per the IMF 2014 framework.

Active:

  • Framework: IMF External Debt Statistics 2014 (aligned with IMF BPM6)
  • Measurement: Millions of euros (Mil. EUR)
  • Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
  • Native frequency: Monthly
  • Start date: Uniformly 2021m5

Predecessor:

  • IMF External Debt Statistics 2003 - 1999m1 to 2021m4 (archive specifier "_21")

The IMF writes:

Gross external debt, at any given time, is the outstanding amount of those actual current, and not contingent, liabilities that require payment(s) of principal and/or interest by the debtor at some point(s) in the future and that are owed to non-residents by residents of an economy. The main criterion for a liability to be included in the gross external debt of the country is that it is issued by a resident and is owed to a non-resident, regardless of whether it is issued on domestic or international, money or capital markets. The same principle is applied for transactions - only those between residents and non-residents are recorded. In the debt tables the BNB records only the amount of tranches actually disbursed.

Data are revised and included in disseminated statistics when corrected or more complete returns are received.

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