Guyana’s Public and Public-guaranteed debt, stood at US$7.7 Billion at the end of 2025, Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh, has revealed.
During the presentation of the 2026 budget earlier this week, the Finance Minister said the Government was able to maintain “responsible and transparent” management of Guyana’s public debt by meeting the country’s financing needs and payment obligations within prudent cost and risk parameters.
Since 2020, he said the ratio of total public and publicly guaranteed (PPG) debt-to-GDP declined considerably, from 47.4 percent at the end of 2020, to 28.6 percent at the end of 2025.
“In this context, total PPG debt ended 2025 at US$7.7 billion, reflecting positive net flows from both external and domestic financing sources over the last year. Domestic PPG debt comprised 62.3 percent of total PPG debt at the end of 2025, while external PPG debt comprised the other 37.7 percent,” the finance minister noted.
Dr. Singh stated that External Public and Public-Guaranteed debt totaled US$2.9 billion at the end of 2025.
He also explained that multilateral creditors constituted the largest share of 64 percent – a 6.3 percentage point increase from the position at the end of 2024, while Bilateral creditors saw the second largest share of 30.1 percent. The remaining 5.9 percent was held by private creditors.
At the end of last year, the country’s domestic Public and Public-guaranteed debt totaled US$4.8 billion.
It was also noted that total debt service payments amounted to US$264.6 million in 2025, with US$176.6 million made to external creditors and US$88 million to domestic creditors.
“The share of external debt service expanded by 3 percentage points to 66.7 percent, mainly the result of an increase in bilateral payments. It follows that the share of domestic debt service contracted by 3 percentage points to 33.3 percent,” the finance minister stated.
It was also noted that, 5.5 percent of Government revenue went towards debt service in 2025, down from 8.5 percent in 2020.
This, the Finance Minister said indicates a strong and improving capacity to meet the country’s financial commitments.
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