September 23 (SeeNews) - The deposits of Bulgaria's non-government sector increased by 12% year-on-year in August, reaching 99.5 billion levs ($59.7 billion/50.9 billion euro), after growing by an annual 11.8% in July, the central bank, BNB, said on Thursday.
At the end of August, the value of deposits was equal to 77.5% of Bulgaria's projected 2021 gross domestic product, the BNB said in a statement.
The deposits of households increased by 10.9% year-on-year in August, reaching 64 billion levs.
The deposits of non-financial corporations totalled 31.3 billion levs at the end of August, up by an annual 13.5%, while deposits of financial corporations went up 18.3% to 4.2 billion levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)