September 23 (SeeNews) - Loans to Bulgaria's non-government sector increased by 7.5% year-on-year in August, reaching 68.3 billion levs ($41.0 billion/34.9 billion euro), following an annual rise of 7.2% in July, the central bank, BNB, said on Thursday.
The value of loans at the end of August was equivalent to 53.2% of gross domestic product planned for 2021, the BNB said in a statement.
Loans to non-financial corporations amounted to 35.8 billion levs at the end of August, up 4.2% on an annual comparison basis.
Loans to households rose by an annual 11.5% to 27.8 billion levs at the end of August, while loans to financial corporations totalled 4.8 billion levs, up 9.9% on the year.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)