March 24 (SeeNews) - Loans to Bulgaria's non-government sector increased by 9.2% year-on-year to 63.3 billion levs ($35.2 billion/32.4 billion euro) at the end of February, following an annual rise of 9% at the end of January, the central bank, BNB, said on Tuesday.
The value of loans at the end of February was equivalent to 49.8% of Bulgaria's forecast 2020 gross domestic product, BNB said in a statement.
Loans to non-financial corporations amounted to 34.9 billion levs at the end of February, up by 5.4% year-on-year.
Loans to households rose by an annual 10.5% to 24.2 billion levs, while loans to non-financial corporations totalled 4.1 billion levs, up 43.4%.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)