May 27 (SeeNews) - Loans to Bulgaria's non-government sector increased by 7.6% year-on-year to 63.1 billion levs ($35.3 billion/32.3 billion euro) at the end of April, following an annual rise of 9.1% at the end of March, the central bank, BNB, said on Wednesday.
The value of loans at the end of April was equivalent to 49.6% of Bulgaria's forecast 2020 gross domestic product, BNB said in a statement.
Loans to non-financial corporations amounted to 34.5 billion levs at the end of April, up by 3.2% year-on-year.
Loans to households rose by an annual 9.2% to 24.3 billion levs, while loans to non-financial corporations totalled 4.2 billion levs, up 47.9%.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)