October 26 (SeeNews) - Loans to Bulgaria's non-government sector increased by 7.6% year-on-year in September, reaching 69.2 billion levs ($41.0 billion/34.9 billion euro), following an annual rise of 7.5% in August, the central bank, BNB, said.
The value of loans at the end of September was equivalent to 53.9% of gross domestic product planned for 2021, the BNB said in a statement on Monday.
Loans to non-financial corporations amounted to 36.2 billion levs at the end of September, up 4.1% on an annual comparison basis.
Loans to households rose by an annual 11.8% to 28.1 billion levs at the end of September, while loans to financial corporations totalled 4.8 billion levs, up 11.3% on the year.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)