India's end-December external debt at $513.4 billion

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's end-December external debt was $513.4 billion, up 3.6 percent from end-September, the finance ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

On a residual maturity basis, short-term debt constituted 42.4 percent of total external debt at the end of December, slightly up from end-September's 41.7 percent, the statement showed.

(Reporting by Suvashree Dey Choudhury; Editing by Amrutha Gayathri)