THE country's debt service burden declined by almost 20 percent in April from a year earlier, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported late Friday.

Preliminary data showed that the debt service burden plunged 19.8 percent to $4.64 billion as of end-April from $5.79 billion in the same period last year.

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