June 23 (SeeNews) - The deposits of Bulgaria's non-government sector increased by a yearly 9.7% in May, reaching roughly 105.7 billion levs ($56.9 billion/54 billion euro), after growing by an annual 10.1% in April, the central bank, said on Thursday.
At the end of May, the value of deposits was equivalent to 72% of Bulgaria's estimated 2022 gross domestic product (GDP), the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said in a statement.
Household deposits increased by 6.2% year-on-year in May to 67.4 billion levs.
At just over 32 billion levs in the review period or 23.2% of the estimated GDP, deposits of non-financial corporations were 16% higher on the year, while deposits of financial corporations rose 19.2% to 4.26 billion levs, after adding 32.1% in April 2022.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)