April 23 (SeeNews) - Loans to Bulgaria's non-government sector rose by an annual 7.8% to 58.1 billion levs ($33.5 billion/29.7 billion euro) at the end of March, the central bank, BNB, said on Tuesday.
The loans at the end of the third month of this year were equal to 50.2% 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 March, up by 5.3% year-on-year.
Loans to households rose by an annual 11% to 22.2 billion levs, while leans to non-financial corporations totalled 2.8 billion levs, up 14.7% on the year.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)