The loans at the end of October were equal to 53% of Bulgaria's forecast gross domestic product in 2019, BNB said in a statement.
Loans to non-financial corporations amounted to 34.4 billion levs at the end of October, up by 5.2% year-on-year.
Loans to households rose by an annual 9.4% to 23.7 billion levs, while loans to non-financial corporations totalled 3.2 billion levs, up 16.4% on the year.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)