November 23 (SeeNews) - Loans to Bulgaria's non-government sector rose by an annual 7.8% to 57.1 billion levs ($33.1 billion/29.2 billion euro) at the end of October, the central bank, BNB, said on Friday.
The deposits at end-October were equal to 55.3% of Bulgaria's forecast gross domestic product in 2018, BNB said in a press release.
Loans to non-financial corporations amounted to 32.7 billion levs at the end of October, up by 4.8% year-on-year.
Loans to households rose by an annual 10.0% to 21.6 billion levs at the end of October.
Details follow (y/y pct change unless otherwise stated):
|
end-Oct (mln levs) |
end-Oct |
end-Sept |
Total |
57,122 |
7.8 |
7.4 |
- non-financial corporations |
32,729 |
4.8 |
4.0 |
- financial corporations |
2,777 |
32.1 |
37.2 |
- households |
21,616 |
10.0 |
9.7 |
source: BNB
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)