July 24 (SeeNews) - Loans to Bulgaria's non-government sector increased by an annual 6.8% to 59.4 billion levs ($33.8 billion/30.4 billion euro) at the end of June, following an annual rise of 7.1% at the end of May, the central bank, BNB, said.
The loans at the end of June were equal to 51.3% of Bulgaria's forecast gross domestic product in 2019, BNB said in a statement on Tuesday.
Loans to non-financial corporations amounted to 33.5 billion levs at the end of June, up by 4.6% year-on-year.
Loans to households rose by an annual 8.1% to 22.7 billion levs, while loans to non-financial corporations totalled 3.1 billion levs, up 29.7% on the year.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)