New Delhi [India], September 30 (ANI): India’s exterior debt stood at USD 747.2 billion on the finish of June 2025, marking a rise of USD 11.2 billion over the extent recorded at end-March 2025, in keeping with knowledge launched by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday.
The knowledge reveals that the exterior debt to GDP ratio moderated barely to 18.9 per cent at end-June 2025 from 19.1 per cent at end-March 2025.
The rise in exterior debt features a valuation lack of USD 5.1 billion because of the depreciation of the US dollar in opposition to the Indian rupee and different main currencies such because the yen, euro, and Special Drawing Rights (SDR). Excluding this valuation impact, the rise in exterior debt would have been USD 6.2 billion.
The knowledge additional reveals that the long-term debt rose to USD 611.7 billion, up by USD 10.3 billion over the earlier quarter.
In distinction, the share of short-term debt (unique maturity as much as one 12 months) declined to 18.1 per cent of whole exterior debt, from 18.3 per cent at end-March 2025.
The spotlight of the info reveals that the short-term debt, on a residual maturity foundation, constituted 40.7 per cent of whole exterior debt and 43.6 per cent of overseas change reserves, each barely decrease than the earlier quarter’s ranges.
US dollar-denominated debt remained the biggest part at 53.8 per cent, adopted by Indian rupee-denominated debt (30.6 per cent), yen (6.6 per cent), SDR (4.6 per cent), and euro (3.5 per cent).
While the final authorities’s excellent exterior debt decreased, the non-government sector’s debt elevated. Non-financial firms held the biggest share at 35.9 per cent, adopted by deposit-taking firms excluding the central financial institution (27.4 per cent), normal authorities (22.5 per cent), and different monetary firms (9.5 per cent).
Loans remained the biggest part of exterior debt at 34.8 per cent, adopted by foreign money and deposits (23.0 per cent), commerce credit score and advances (17.7 per cent), and debt securities (16.8 per cent).
Debt service stood at 6.6 per cent of present receipts, unchanged from the earlier quarter, the info reveals. (ANI)