Over the first nine months of the year as a whole, the outstanding public debt in Tunisia came close to the bar of 110.2 billion dinars (34.9 billion dollars), an increase estimated at 8% compared to the same period of 2021, the Tunisian Ministry of Finance revealed on Saturday.
In a statistical report, quoted by the local press, the ministry reported an external debt of 66.3 billion dinars (regarding 21 billion dollars), the equivalent of 60.1% of the outstanding balance of the public debt.
As for public debt service, the amount is around 10.7 billion dinars, or regarding 3.3 billion dollars. As for the repayment of the principal of the debt, it exceeds an amount of 7.5 billion dinars (2.3 billion dollars), while the repayment of interest amounts to 3.2 billion dinars (a little more than a billion dollars).
