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ARM · Europe & Central Asia · Upper middle income · IBRD

Armenia

Republic of Armenia owed $16.40B to nonresidents in 2024, the 50th largest stock among the 120 economies that report to the Debtor Reporting System. Its first external-debt stock in IDS is 1993.

$16.40B
External debt stock
2024, 50th of 120 reporters
66%
External debt, % of GNI
2024
9.2%
Debt service, % of exports
2024
$5K
External debt per capita
2024

Who Armenia owes

Public and publicly guaranteed debt by creditor class, percent of PPG, 19932024. In 2024 PPG stood at $6.31B: 25.4% owed to private creditors, 56.8% to multilateral lenders, and 17.8% to bilateral and other official creditors as a residual.

Private creditorsBilateral and other official (residual)Multilateral
0%25%50%75%100%19931995200020052010201520202024MultilateralBilateral+Private

Source: World Bank International Debt Statistics, Debtor Reporting System (reported by the borrowing government). Selection: DT.DOD.DPPG.CD, DT.DOD.PRVT.CD and DT.DOD.MLAT.ZS for ARM. Bilateral and other official is the residual: PPG minus private minus multilateral. Methodology

On what terms

The composition above says who lent. These say on what terms, and against what the debt is measured. Blank means IDS carries no value for Armenia in 2024.

Concessional debt, % of total external debt
loans with an original grant element of 35% or more
6.2%
Short-term debt, % of total external debt
original maturity of one year or less, any borrower
21.3%
Total reserves, % of total external debt
the buffer against the stock
22%
External debt, % of exports
goods, services and primary income
83%
Debt service paid
principal and interest actually paid in 2024
$1.82B
Of which interest
interest payments on all external debt
$699.2M
Private nonguaranteed debt
borrowed by companies and banks, no state guarantee
$6.10B

Source: World Bank International Debt Statistics, Debtor Reporting System (reported by the borrowing government). Selection: DT.DOD.ALLC.ZS, DT.DOD.DSTC.ZS, FI.RES.TOTL.DT.ZS, DT.DOD.DECT.EX.ZS, DT.TDS.DECT.CD, DT.INT.DECT.CD, DT.DOD.DPNG.CD for ARM in 2024. Methodology

What Armenia pays, and what it is contracted to pay

Armenia paid $1.82B in external debt service in 2024. It is contracted to pay $3.04B in 2025 and $13.21B in total over 20252032 on debt it has already contracted. Those years are a repayment schedule, not a forecast of what Armenia will pay: borrowing it has not yet done cannot be in them.

Total debt serviceOf which public and publicly guaranteedScheduled on debt already contracted, not a forecast
SCHEDULEDUSD bn012341993199520002005201020152020202520302032

Source: World Bank International Debt Statistics, Debtor Reporting System (reported by the borrowing government). Selection: DT.TDS.DECT.CD (total debt service) and DT.TDS.DPPG.CD (PPG debt service) for ARM, all years present in the file. Actual through 2024, which is the last year of the debt-stock series; everything after it is the contracted repayment schedule. Methodology

The stock, 19932024

Total external debt in current US dollars, so the path mixes new borrowing with the falling value of the dollar over 31 years. IDS carries no constant-price series, so this is not deflated. $133.9M in 1993, $16.40B in 2024.

19932024

Source: World Bank International Debt Statistics, Debtor Reporting System (reported by the borrowing government). Selection: DT.DOD.DECT.CD for ARM, every year with a value, current US dollars. Methodology

What IDS does not carry for Armenia

1 of the 24 IDS indicators carries no value for Armenia in 2024: Debt forgiveness grants (current US$). A blank has three possible causes and IDS distinguishes none of them: the country did not report the series, the series does not apply to it (an IBRD stock for a country with no IBRD loan), or the series has ended for every country. So neither does this page.

Every IDS series here is what Armenia reported to the World Bank. The bilateral leg of the creditor chart is the exception: this page derives it as a residual, and it absorbs whatever went unreported. Debt Armenia did not report is not here.

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