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The current account of balance of payment registered a deficit of 4.710 billion Euro, during the first 4 months of 2021, rising by 107.12%, in comparison with the one from the similar period of 2020, of 2.274 billion Euro, according to a press release from the Romanian National Bank (BNR), agerpres reports.
During the period of January - April 2021, total foreign debt has gone up by 1.048 billion Euro. In structure, long-term foreign debt totaled 92.334 billion Euro on April 30, 2021 (72.7% from the total foreign debt), dropping by 0.5% from December 31, 2020.
Short-term foreign debt registered on April 30, 2021, the level of 34.641 billion Euro (27.3% of the total foreign debt), rising by 4.7% from December 31, 2020.
The long-term foreign debt service rate was 18.4% during the period of January-April 2021, in comparison with 20.1% in 2020. The coverage of imports of goods and services at April 30, 2021, was 5.0 months, in comparison with 5.6 months at December 31, 2020.
The short-term foreign debt coverage, calculated at the residual value, with monetary reserves at BNR at April 30, 2021, was 86.8%, in comparison with 90.7% at December 31, 2020.
