AMMAN, June 9 (Xinhua) — Jordan\’s budget deficit during the first four months of 2010 amounted to about 30.4 million Jordanian dinars (about 43 million U.S. dollars) compared to 325.8 million dinars the same period last year, official figures showed Wednesday.
The kingdom\’s budget deficit without foreign assistance reached 134 million dinars during the January-April period compared to 370. 1 million dinars of the same period last year, according to the figures released by Jordan\’s Finance Ministry obtained by Xinhua.
Domestic revenues in the first four months of 2010 amounted to about 1.559 billion dinars compared to 1.512 billion dinars in the same period of 2009, according to the figures.
Foreign aid during the January-April period amounted to 103.6 million dinars, while it reached 44.3 million dinars in the same period of 2009, according to the ministry\’s figures.
Total expenditure during the first four months reached 1.693 billion dinars compared to 1.882 billion dinars during the same period of 2009, the figures indicated.
The figures also indicated that Jordan\’s overall public debt stood at about 9.725 billion dinars during the January-April period of this year compared to 9.660 billion dinars during the same period of last year.
Of the total public debt in the January-April period, about 5. 903 billion dinars is internal debt. (1 U.S. dollar = 0.709 Jordanian dinar)
