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Informist, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025

--RBI: India external debt at $747.2 bln as on Jun 30

--RBI: India external debt at $747.2 bln as on Jun 30, up 9.6% YoY

--RBI: India external debt at $747.2 bln as on Jun 30, up $11.2 bln on qtr 

MUMBAI – India's external debt was up 9.6% on year at $747.2 billion as on Jun. 30, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India Tuesday. As percentage of GDP, the external debt fell from a quarter ago to 18.9%. At the end of March, the external debt stood at $735.9 billion, or 19.1% of GDP.

"Valuation loss due to the depreciation of the US dollar vis--vis the Indian rupee and other major currencies such as yen, the euro and SDR amounted to $5.1 billion," the RBI said. "Excluding the valuation effect, external debt would have increased by $6.2 billion instead of $11.2 billion at end-June 2025 over end-March 2025."

Long-term debt, or debt with original maturity of over one year, made up most of India's external debt. At the end of June, long-term debt amounted to $611.7 billion, or 81.9% of the total. The share of short-term debt, with original maturity of up to one year, made up the remainder and fell from 18.3% at end-March. Short-term debt on residual maturity basis constituted 40.7% of the total external debt at end-June and stood at 43.6% of foreign exchange reserves, marginally lower than in March. 

Dollar-denominated debt remained the largest component of India's external debt, accounting for 53.8% of it at the end of June. Rupee debt made up 30.6% and Japanese yen debt 6.6%. The share of outstanding debt of non-financial corporations in total external debt was the highest at 35.9%, followed by deposit-taking corporations at 27.3%, excluding the RBI. The general government's share was 22.5% and other financial corporations contributed 9.5% to the total external debt at June-end.  End

US$1= INR 88.7875

Reported by Aaryan Khanna

Edited by Avishek Dutta

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