Hungary’s Foreign Debt Service Indices (based on current account of payments)
Hungary’s Foreign Debt Service Indices (based on current account of payments)
Description
|
1996
|
1997
|
1998
|
1999
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gross interest expenditures, USD million
|
2 320
|
2 263
|
1 975
|
1 478
|
Debt servicea), USD million
|
9 522
|
9 520
|
7 750
|
5 432
|
Balance of payments on current account as a percentage of the GDP
|
-3.7
|
-2.1
|
-4.9
|
-4.3
|
Gross debtb) as a percentage of the GDP
|
62.1
|
53.3
|
58.0
|
60.4
|
Net debt as a percentage of the GDP
|
32.4
|
25.8
|
27.4
|
23.3
|
Import coverage index, month (reserve/one month’s import)
|
7.0
|
4.7
|
4.9
|
5.5
|
a)Repayment of medium-term loans and gross interest expenditures (excluding loans extended by owners)
b)Loans extended by owners
Source: National Bank of Hungary (NBH)
