State debt of Kyrgyzstan nearly reaches $6 billion

11:34, 17 ноября 2023, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Tatyana KUDRYAVTSEVA

At the end of September, the state debt of Kyrgyzstan (external and internal) amounted to $5,987.01 billion (531,108.91 billion soms). The Ministry of Finance provided the data.

As noted, $4,486.58 billion (398,004.07 billion soms) is the external debt, $1,500.44 billion (133,103.94 billion soms) — internal.

During the month, the state debt increased by $140.6 million. The external debt decreased by $9.48 million, while the internal debt increased by $150.1 million.

At the end of September, the public debt amounted to 57.29 percent of GDP.

More than half (51.9 percent) of the external debt are multilateral loans of Kyrgyzstan — $2,330.22 billion. Another $2,101.19 billion (46.8 percent of the external debt) the country owes within the framework of bilateral concessional loans. Of these, 38.5 percent of the country’s external debt is the debt to the Export-Import Bank of China, which reached $1,726.59 billion at the end of August.