(2018-10) Public sector external debt (payment basis), October 2017 - September 2018

This is a monthly statistical table produced by Haiti's Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), with data sourced from the Banque de la Republique d'Haiti (BRH), presenting the outstanding external debt of Haiti's public sector on an aggregated payment basis (including payment arrears) for each month from October 2017 to September 2018, expressed in millions of US dollars. The table breaks debt down into long-term debt versus arrears, and by creditor category (bilateral vs. multilateral), further detailing individual bilateral creditors (United States, France, Spain, Italy, Taiwan/Chine Taipei, and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) and multilateral creditors (IDA/World Bank, IFAD/FIDA, IMF/FMI, IDB/BID, OPEC Fund). Total external debt was broadly stable across the period, moving from 2,122.0 million USD in October 2017 to a peak of 2,228.8 million USD in February 2018 before settling at 2,121.9 million USD in September 2018. Long-term debt accounted for essentially all outstanding debt, rising in share from 86.6% in October 2017 to 87.3% by September 2018 as arrears (rescheduled/restructured debt in default) grew from 85.8 million USD (4.0% of total) to 169.7 million USD (8.0% of total) over the same period. Bilateral creditors held the large majority of the debt (89.7% in October 2017, rising to 90.2% by September 2018), overwhelmingly owed to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela under PetroCaribe-related financing (85.3% of total debt in October 2017, 86.0% by September 2018, reaching 1,852.3 million USD), with much smaller balances owed to Taiwan (Chine Taipei). Multilateral creditors represented a stable 9-10% of the total, led by the IMF (FMI) and IFAD (FIDA).

Cover page is undated beyond the data period label (OCT 17 - SEPT 18); publication month prefix (2018-10) is inferred as the month immediately following the last data point, not printed on the document.