2023-10-05 16:52:43
With a stock of external debt estimated at $165.36 billion, Cairo is preparing to face a flurry of repayment deadlines. From next year, the country must pay 29 billion dollars to service its foreign currency debt! This is the equivalent of 130% of the GDP of a country like Senegal.
This is a deadline that financial market professionals and investors await with some apprehension. In 2024, Egypt will have to repay $29.23 billion in principal and interest payments on its external debt, according to data just published by the Central Bank. After this peak, debt service will begin to decline, reaching $19.43 billion in 2025 and $22.94 billion the following year. Reimbursements are only expected to really decrease in 2027 and 2028, years during which Egypt will pay $12.11 billion and $7.5 billion to its creditors, respectively.
The country’s external debt stocks reached $165.36 billion at the end of March 2023 compared to $162.9 billion at the end of 2022.
The Moody’s agency expressed concern regarding the country’s solvency in a report published last April. Its analysts had estimated that “Egypt’s debt capacity and debt sustainability profile are increasingly threatened by the decline in the country’s foreign currency assets.”
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