OREANDA-NEWS The state debt of Russia in 2022 reached 22.82 rubles in ruble equivalent. This is reported by TASS with reference to the conclusion of the Accounting Chamber.

The document says that over the 12 months of last year, the national debt increased by almost 1.9 trillion rubles, or 9.1%, and amounted to 14.9% of the GDP of the Russian Federation (gross domestic product). Of the 22.82 trillion rubles of Russia's public debt, 18.78 trillion rubles is accounted for by domestic debt, and 4.04 trillion rubles — by external debt.

The ratio of total public debt to GDP decreased by 0.6 percentage points last year, while public debt servicing costs increased from 1.08 trillion rubles in 2021 to 1.33 trillion rubles in 2022.

Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov in May called the indicators on the state debt of the Russian Federation "good". According to him, in the USA this indicator is at the level of 121.7%, and in the Eurozone – 90.9%. For example, in Germany, the level of public debt is 66.5%, in France – 111.1%.

At the end of March, RIA Novosti, citing data from the Central Bank, reported that Russia's external debt had decreased to the lowest values in 15 years, since the first quarter of 2007. In total, Russia's external debt decreased by 21.1% last year and amounted to $380.5 billion — thus, over the past year, the debt decreased by $101.8 billion.