Country’s debt increased by Rs 2.31 billion in one year, 91,500 loans to each citizen

लगानी न्यूज

१४ श्रावण २०८२, बुधबार १२:२५July 30, 2025

Kathmandu. The country’s total public debt has increased by Rs 231.8 billion in the last fiscal year 2081-82. During this period, the country’s debt has reached Rs 26.69 billion. In the fiscal year 2080-81, such loans stood at Rs 2,438.48 billion.

The debt burden TAG_OPEN_div_20 of every Nepali has also increased with the increase in the country’s debt. According to public debt management, each Nepali currently has a loan of Rs 91,536. According to the office, public debt has reached 43.71 percent of gdp. Out of the public debt, the share of foreign debt is 52.49 percent and the share of internal debt is 47.51 percent.

According to the Office of the

} the debt added last year is only Rs 152 billion. The remaining Rs 79 billion has been added due to the weakening of the Nepali currency against the foreign currency. Compared to the loan raised last year, only Rs 151 billion has been reduced.

In last year’TAG_OPEN_div_16 s budget, the government had set a target of raising Rs 547 billion in public debt. In the last one year, only Rs 455.39 billion has been borrowed. This is 83.25 percent of the target. The government had set a target of raising Rs 330 billion in internal debt out of the total public debt.

Similarly, the budget had set a target of raising Rs 217 billion in external debt. TAG_OPEN_div_14 Of this, only 57.79 percent has been received. Last year, only Rs 152 billion was received as external debt. Internal and external debt accounted for 72.46 per cent and 27.54 per cent of total public debt receipts.

According to the Office of the TAG_OPEN_div_12, rs 362.59 billion has been paid till June against rs 402.85 billion allocated for loan service expenditure in the last fiscal year. This is 90.01 percent on the basis of annual budget allocation. Similarly, the total service loan service expenditure in terms of GDP is 5.94 percent.