November 24 (SeeNews) - Loans to Bulgaria's non-government sector increased by 5.8% year-on-year to 64.9 billion levs ($39.4 billion/33.2 billion euro) at the end of October, following an annual rise of 5.9% in September, the central bank, BNB, said on Tuesday.
The value of loans at the end of October was equivalent to 58.4% of Bulgaria's forecast 2020 gross domestic product, the BNB said in a statement.
Loans to non-financial corporations amounted to 35.2 billion levs at the end of October, up by 2.2% on the year.
Loans to households rose by an annual 7.1% to 25.3 billion levs, while loans to financial corporations totalled 4.3 billion levs, up 34.3%.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)