The government has managed to trim its debt as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP) despite a rise in value terms, the Finance department said on Tuesday.

Debt as a percentage of GDP dropped to 36.8 percent as of end-September 2015 from the 37.2 percent recorded a year earlier, the department said in a statement.

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