VOL. XLIII

No. 31

30-July-2000

IRAN

Irans External Debt Registers Further Decline

Irans total external debt at the end of 1378 (the year to 19 March 2000) fell by $3.642bn to $10.357bn ($3.618bn short term and $6.739bn medium and long term) from $13.999bn a year ago, according to statistics published by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) in its latest quarterly bulletin, Economic Trends. In the last quarter of 1378, the debt fell by $738mn. The bulletin notes that the debt figure at the end of 1378...