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India’s external debt rises by 2.1% to $495.7 billion in Q2FY18

01 Jan 2018 Evaluate

India’s external debt position surged by around 2.1 percent to $495.7 billion during July-September quarter (Q2 FY18), as compared to $485.8 billion reported for the end-June period. The rise in external debt was mainly due to the increase in foreign portfolio investment (FPI) in the debt segment of domestic capital market included under commercial borrowings. Apart from this, some rise in short-term debt primarily due to trade related credit also contributed to the overall increase in total external debt.

As per the data furnished by the finance ministry, the maturity pattern of India's external debt indicates dominance of long-term borrowings. It also indicated that at end-September 2017, long-term external debt accounted for 81.3 percent of India's total external debt, while the remaining (18.7 percent) was short-term external debt. Besides, the shares of Government (sovereign) and non- Government debt in the total external debt were 21.6 percent and 78.4 percent respectively, with the former's share increasing from 19.4 percent at end-March 2017.  It noted that this was mainly due to the increasing level of foreign portfolio investment in government securities.

The data further highlighted that US dollar denominated debt accounted for 50 percent of India’s total external debt at end-September 2017, followed by Indian rupee (35.7 percent), SDR (5.7 percent), Japanese Yen (4.4 percent), Euro (3.2 percent), Pound Sterling (0.6 percent), and others (0.4 percent). Besides, it showed that the foreign exchange cover to total external debt improved to 80.7 percent at end-September 2017 compared to 78.4 percent at end-March 2017.

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