{"id":220204,"date":"2025-06-28T02:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T02:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220204\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T02:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T02:42:10","slug":"foreign-debt-climbs-indias-external-debt-rises-10-to-736-3-billion-in-fy25-debt-to-gdp-edges-up-to-19-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220204\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign debt climbs: India\u2019s external debt rises 10% to $736.3 billion in FY25; debt-to-GDP edges up to 19.1%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/122118157.jpg\" alt=\"Foreign debt climbs: India\u2019s external debt rises 10% to $736.3 billion in FY25; debt-to-GDP edges up to 19.1%\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> India\u2019s external debt rose 10% to $736.3 billion at the end of March 2025 from $668.8 billion a year earlier, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday. The debt-to-GDP ratio also inched up to 19.1% from 18.5% in FY24.The increase includes a $5.3 billion valuation impact due to the appreciation of the US dollar against the rupee and other currencies. Excluding this effect, the underlying increase in debt was $72.9 billion, PTI reported.Breakdown of debt compositionThe non-financial corporate sector accounted for the largest share, borrowing $261.7 billion. Deposit-taking corporations excluding the central bank owed $202.1 billion, while the government\u2019s share of external debt stood at $168.4 billion.Long-term debt (with original maturity above one year) rose by $60.6 billion to $601.9 billion. Meanwhile, the share of short-term debt in total external liabilities declined to 18.3% from 19.1% a year ago. However, the ratio of short-term debt to foreign exchange reserves rose slightly to 20.1%, up from 19.7% at the end of FY24, the report said.Debt instruments and currency mix<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loans remained the largest component of external debt, making up 34% of the total, followed by:<\/li>\n<li>Currency and deposits: 22.8%<\/li>\n<li>Trade credit and advances: 17.8%<\/li>\n<li>Debt securities: 17.7%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US dollar continued to dominate India\u2019s foreign borrowing, accounting for 54.2% of the total external debt. Other currencies in the debt mix included the Indian rupee (31.1%), Japanese yen (6.2%), Special Drawing Rights (4.6%), and euro (3.2%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India\u2019s external debt rose 10% to $736.3 billion at the end of March 2025 from $668.8 billion a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,86870,86867,86871,86868,86869,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-220204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-india-debt-to-gdp-ratio","11":"tag-india-external-debt","12":"tag-india-external-debt-increase-2025","13":"tag-india-foreign-debt-statistics","14":"tag-rbi-external-debt-report","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114758690154040158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}