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Foreign Debt Servicing Hits $4.9B in 4 Months
The Philippine Star
|July 23, 2025
Payments for the country's foreign debt inched up by 1.2 percent to $4.91 billion in the first four months of the year as the government continued to settle more maturing obligations amid elevated global interest rates.
Based on preliminary data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the country's external debt service burden went up from $4.85 billion in the same period last year. Principal payments increased by six percent to $2.42 billion while interest payments fell by three percent to $2.49 billion.
This story is from the July 23, 2025 edition of The Philippine Star.
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