The Central Bank of Egypt announced that the government repaid $6.442bn in external debt service during the first quarter of the 2025/2026 fiscal year. The total includes $2.078bn in interest payments and $4.363bn in principal repayments. This compares to $7.952bn in the same period of 2024/2025.
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) reported that the government repaid $6.442bn in external debt service, covering both interest and principal, during the first quarter (Q1) of the 2025/2026 fiscal year, compared with $7.952bn in Q1 of 2024/2025.
The total comprises $2.078bn in interest payments and $4.363bn in principal repayments. Egypt’s external debt stood at $163.7bn in September 2025, up from $161.23bn in June 2025, while the external debt-to-GDP ratio fell to 42.4% at the end of September from 44.2% at the end of June.
In a separate development, net foreign assets (NFA) of the banking sector rose by EGP 474.4bn in the first half of the 2025/2026 fiscal year, a 64% growth rate, with EGP 339.2bn from banks and EGP 135.2bn from the central bank. Foreign investors’ holdings of local treasury bills increased to EGP 2.525trn in January 2026 from EGP 2.449trn in December 2025.
Remittances from Egyptians abroad grew 28% to $29.4bn in the first eight months of 2025/2026, compared to $23bn the previous year. On a monthly basis, they rose 25.7% in February 2026 to $3.8bn from $3bn in February 2025.