OREANDA-NEWS. January 06, 2015. According to National Bank of Moldova, the external state debt and the state-guaranteed debt of Moldova decreased by 1.8% from USD 1 billion 774.91 million in December, 2013 to USD 1 billion 742.81 million in September 2014, reaching 25.5% of the debt’s total size.

At the same time, the private non-guaranteed external debt of Moldova increased 3.8% from USD 4 billion 898.46 million to USD5 billion 084.75 million. The short-term external liabilities, more exposed to risks, were 53.6% of the total debt.

This-year growth in Moldova’s total external debt was caused by higher liabilities of commercial banks, which increased 21.1% from USD 856.83 million to USD 1 billion 038.7 million in the reporting period.

In the structure of the total external debt of Moldova the share of the governmental sector was 19.2%; the share of the National Bank equalled to 6%; the shares of commercial banks and other sectors being 15.2%, and 43.5% respectively. Liabilities to foreign investors amounted to 16.1% of the total external debt of Moldova.