March 26 (SeeNews) - Loans to Bulgaria's non-government sector rose by an annual 8.7% to 57.9 billion levs ($33.5 billion/29.6 billion euro) at the end of February, the central bank, BNB, said on Tuesday.
The loans at the end of the second month of this year were equal to 50.1% of Bulgaria's forecast gross domestic product in 2019, BNB said in a statement.
Loans to non-financial corporations amounted to 33.1 billion levs at the end of February, up by 6.2% year-on-year.
Loans to households rose by an annual 10.7% to 21.9 billion levs, while leans to non-financial corporations totalled 2.9 billion levs, up 25.7% on the year.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)