| Selected External Debt Ratios 1, 2 | ||||||||||
| in million US dollars; for periods indicated | ||||||||||
| January - February p | ||||||||||
| I t e m | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 p | 2025 | 2026 | ||||
| I. | Debt Service Burden (DSB) 3 | |||||||||
| Total | 8,483 | 14,852 | 16,995 | 13,159 | 1,617 | 2,127 | ||||
| Principal | 4,613 | 7,757 | 8,762 | 5,106 | 386 | 884 | ||||
| Interest | 3,871 | 7,095 | 8,233 | 8,052 | 1,232 | 1,243 | ||||
| II. | Export Shipments | 57,710 | 55,257 | 55,056 | 63,411 | 10,320 | 12,164 | |||
| III. | Exports of Goods, and Receipts | 135,329 | 144,157 | 148,300 | 158,429 | 25,527 | 27,429 | |||
| from Services & Primary Income 4 | ||||||||||
| IV. | Current Account Receipts | 143,234 | 152,172 | 156,157 | 166,415 | 26,811 | 28,714 | |||
| V. | Gross National Income (GNI) | 428,113 | 484,954 | 521,597 | 559,930 | - | - | |||
| VI. | Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | 404,353 | 437,056 | 461,671 | 487,086 | - | - | |||
| VII. | External Debt (End-of-Period) | |||||||||
| Total | 111,268 | 125,394 | 137,628 | 147,651 | - | - | ||||
| Public | 67,406 | 77,829 | 85,340 | 94,867 | - | - | ||||
| Private | 43,862 | 47,565 | 52,288 | 52,784 | - | - | ||||
| VIII. | Gross International Reserves | 96,149 | 103,753 | 106,256 | 110,833 | 107,395 | 113,264 | |||
| (End-of-Period) | ||||||||||
| IX. | Ratios (%) | |||||||||
| 1. | DSB to Export Shipments | 14.7 | 26.9 | 30.9 | 20.8 | 15.7 | 17.5 | |||
| 2. | DSB to Exports of Goods, and | 6.3 | 10.3 | 11.5 | 8.3 | 6.3 | 7.8 | |||
| Receipts from Services & Primary Income | ||||||||||
| 3. | DSB to Current Account Receipts | 5.9 | 9.8 | 10.9 | 7.9 | 6.0 | 7.4 | |||
| 4. | DSB to GNI | 2.0 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 2.4 | - | - | |||
| 5. | DSB to GDP | 2.1 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 2.7 | - | - | |||
| 6. | External Debt to GNI | 26.0 | 25.9 | 26.4 | 26.4 | - | - | |||
| 7. | External Debt to GDP | 27.5 | 28.7 | 29.8 | 30.3 | - | - | |||
| Public | 16.7 | 17.8 | 18.5 | 19.5 | - | - | ||||
| Private | 10.8 | 10.9 | 11.3 | 10.8 | - | - | ||||
| 8. | Gross International Reserves to | 1,133.4 | 698.6 | 625.2 | 842.3 | 664.5 | a | 828.7 | a | |
| Debt Service Burden | ||||||||||
| 1 | In 2000, the BSP adopted the Balance of Payments Manual, Fifth Edition (BPM5) for the compilation of its Balance of Payments (BOP) statistics starting with the 1999 series. | |||||||||
| In March 2014, the BSP completed its shift to the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition (BPM6), covering BOP data from 2005. | ||||||||||
| 2 | In March 2015, external debt data were revised to reflect the new reporting framework in line with international standards under the latest External Debt Statistics Guide | |||||||||
| and the BPM6. | ||||||||||
| 3 | Debt service burden represents principal and interest payments. In accordance with internationally-accepted concept, the DSB data consists of: | |||||||||
| a. Principal and interest payments on fixed medium- and long-term (MLT) credits including International Monetary Fund (IMF) credits and New Money Facilities | ||||||||||
| b. Interest payments on fixed and revolving short-term (ST) liabilities of banks and non-banks | ||||||||||
| but excludes the following: | ||||||||||
| a. Prepayments on future years' maturities of foreign loans | ||||||||||
| b. Principal payments on fixed and revolving ST liabilities of banks and non-banks | ||||||||||
| 4 | Primary income receipts include investment income and overseas Filipino (OF) cash remittances that were coursed through and reported by banks. | |||||||||
| Details may not add up to total due to rounding. | ||||||||||
| a | For comparability with annual figures, DSB was annualized by taking the total DSB over the past 12 months. | |||||||||
| p | preliminary | |||||||||
| - | not available | |||||||||
| Source: Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas | ||||||||||