General government external debt increased by 14.8 percent, or 3.979 billion litas, to 30.909 billion litas, the office said citing data from the Finance Ministry.
Central government external debt totaled 30.758 billion litas at the end of 2011 (99.5 pct of the total external debt), and that of local authorities – 151 million litas (0.5 pct).