Bulgaria - Gross External Debt

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.

Further reading

At the source:

• Transition to the latest edition of External Debt Statistics (Jul 2021, pdf)

At IMF (DSBB):

• External debt