Public debt outstanding rises to Bt5.98 tn in September
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Thailand’s public debt outstanding as of September 30 increased by Bt40 billion from the month before to Bt5.98 trillion, representing 42.73 per cent of gross domestic product, according to the Public Debt Management Office.
Of the total, Bt5.64 trillion was domestic debt (94.21 per cent of total public debt) and Bt346.43 billion was external debt (5.79 per cent of total public debt).
Theeraj Athanavanich, the office’s deputy director-general, said the total debt outstanding included Bt4.47 trillion of government debt, of which Bt994.794 billion was debt of non-financial state-owned enterprises, Bt500.05 billion was government-guaranteed financial SOEs’ debt, and Bt22.31 billion was debt held by other government agencies.
