AMMAN — The
total public debt, which
includes the government's debt to the Social Security Investment Fund, has
reached JD40.080 billion by the end of July this year, constituting 114.6
percent of the
Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
اضافة اعلان
According to data from the
Ministry of Finance, the
government has borrowed JD1.591 billion dinars from the
beginning of this year until the end of July, Al Ghad reported.
The total public debt at the end of
the previous year was JD38.489 billion.
The data also indicates that the
public debt, excluding the debt to the Social
Security Investment Fund, has
reached JD31.523 billion, accounting for 90.1 percent of the GDP.
Furthermore, the data shows that the
government has borrowed a total of JD8.558 billion from the
Social Security Investment Fund by the end of July.
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