Brasília – The consolidated public sector (federal, state and local governments and state-owned companies) registered a primary deficit of R$ 10.019 billion (US$ 2.8 billion) in July, according to data from the Brazilian Central Bank (BC) released this Friday (28th). It was the worst result for a July in the historical series started in December 2001. In the same month of 2014, it was registered a primary deficit of R$ 4.715 billion (US$ 1.31 billion).
In the first seven months of the year, the public sector registers a primary surplus of R$ 6.205 billion (US$ 1.73 billion). Year-to-July, the public sector registered a primary deficit of R$ 50.996 billion (US$ 14.25 billion), which accounts to 0.89% of Brazil’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Spending with interest rates over the debt reached R$ 62.753 billion (US$ 17.54 billion) in July and R$ 288.623 (US$ 80.67 billion) in the first seven months of the year.
The nominal deficit, constituted by the primary result and spending with interest rates, reached R$ 72.772 billion (US$ 20.34 billion) in July. In the first seven months of the year, the negative result reached R$ 282.418 billion (US$ 78.94 billion).
The net debt of the public sector reached R$ 1.950 trillion (US$ 545 billion) in July, which accounts to 34.2% of the GDP. Over June, the debt over the GDP rate declined 0.4 percentage point. The gross debt reached R$ 3.685 trillion (US$ 1.03 trillion) or 64.6% of the GDP, an increase of 1.4 percentage point over June.
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
