(2022-09) Public External Debt, Oct 2021-Sep 2022 (monthly, incl. arrears)
Summary — A one-page MEF table, sourced from BRH, tracking Haiti's aggregated public external debt stock month by month from October 2021 through September 2022, including payment arrears. It breaks the stock down by bilateral and multilateral creditors and shows the same series as shares of total external debt.
Key Findings
- Total public external debt was 2 271.33 million USD in September 2022, down slightly from 2 259.38 million USD in October 2021.
- Bilateral creditors held 89.7% of the debt stock in September 2022, almost entirely owed to Venezuela (about 81% of total debt, PetroCaribe-related).
- Arrears rose from 458.26 million USD (20.3% of total debt) in October 2021 to 546.16 million USD (24.0%) in September 2022.
- IMF exposure declined from 175.92 million USD to 153.35 million USD over the same period.
- All reported debt is classified as long-term; restructured debt is stable at 2.36 million USD.
Full Description
This is a monthly time-series table produced by the Ministere de l'Economie et des Finances (MEF), citing the Banque de la Republique d'Haiti (BRH) as source, showing Haiti's aggregated public external debt stock (encours), including arrears, for each month from October 2021 to September 2022. Total external debt fell slightly over the period, from 2 259.38 million USD in October 2021 to 2 271.33 million USD in September 2022, after dipping as low as 2 238.00 million USD in March 2022. All debt is classified as long-term. Bilateral creditors dominate the stock (rising from 88.2% to 89.7% of the total over the period), overwhelmingly owed to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (about 81% of total debt throughout, i.e. PetroCaribe-related debt), with smaller amounts to Chine Taipei and the BANDES facility; the United States, France, Spain and Italy lines are all reported at zero. Multilateral creditors (IDA/IBRD, FIDA, IMF, IDB, OPEC Fund) account for the remainder, falling from 11.7% to 10.2% of the total, with the IMF the largest multilateral creditor (153.35 million USD in September 2022, down from 175.92 million USD a year earlier as repayments occurred). Restructured debt (dette reamenagee) is a small, stable 2.36 million USD throughout. Arrears grew steadily over the period, from 458.26 million USD (20.3% of total debt) in October 2021 to 546.16 million USD (24.0%) in September 2022, indicating accumulating payment arrears mainly on the Venezuela-related bilateral debt.
Notes
Cover page has no explicit publication date; the table's title identifies it only as the aggregated public external debt series through September 2022 (the last data column), so the (YYYY-MM) prefix uses 2022-09 as a proxy for the publication month rather than a stated cover date.