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In the hryvnia equivalent, the debt increased by UAH 30.4 billion.
Ukraine's Finance Ministry says the country's public and government-guaranteed debt, estimated in the hryvnia, Ukraine's national currency, grew by 1.3% to UAH 2.398 trillion (US$84.6 billion at the forex rate as of Dec 28) in November 2020, while that in the U.S. dollar equivalent rose by 1.2% to US$84.24 billion.
"In November 2020, public and government-guaranteed debt in the hryvnia equivalent increased by UAH 30.4 billion [US$1.07 billion at the forex rate as of Dec 28], while growing by US$0.98 billion in the U.S. dollar equivalent," the ministry said on its website.
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Public domestic debt was UAH 905.10 billion, or US$31.92 billion (37.74% of the total sum).
Government-guaranteed debt
Ukraine's government-guaranteed debt stood at UAH 289.19 billion, or US$10.20 billion (12.06% of the total public and government-guaranteed debt), including: government-guaranteed foreign debt at UAH 259.93 billion, or US$9.17 billion (10.84%) and government-guaranteed domestic debt at UAH 29.26 billion, or US$1.03 billion (1.22% of the total sum).
Background
Ukraine's state and government-guaranteed debt in 2019 increased in dollar terms by US$6.05 billion, or 7.7%, to US$84.36 billion.
Public debt in the hryvnia equivalent shrank by UAH 170.17 billion (US$6 billion), or 7.8%, in the past year, to UAH 1.998 trillion (US$70.5 billion).
The debt-to-GDP ratio as of January 1, 2020, stood at 50%.
Since the beginning of 2020, Ukraine had spent UAH 357.4 billion (US$12.6 billion) as of December 23, 2020. Head of the Accounting Chamber Valeriy Patskan says every seventh hryvnia from Ukraine's national budget is spent on servicing state debts.