BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 1. Currency reserves of Azerbaijan (State Oil Fund and Central Bank) totaled $77.7 billion as of July 1 this year, surpassing the foreign public debt by nearly 15.5 times.
The data obtained by Trend from the Ministry of Finance shows that as of the reporting date, the country's foreign public debt amounted to $5.01 billion or 6.5 percent of the projected GDP of 130.66 billion manat ($76.8 billion) for 2025.
As many as 49.9 percent of the external public debt must be repaid to creditors within a period of up to five years, 44.1 percent within a period of five to 10 years, and six percent within over 10 years.
As of July 1, 2025, the currency composition of external public debt was as follows: US dollar - 85.1 percent, euro - 6.5 percent, SDR (International Monetary Fund Special Drawing Rights) - 3.4 percent, Japanese yen - 3.3 percent, and other currencies - 1.7 percent.
