Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)'s monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) was 33.72% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 16.39 percentage points from 50.1% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 33.72% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 50.42% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 50.1% | 2015 |
| Highest | 51.47% | 2016 |
| Lowest | 10.77% | 1995 |
| Average since 2016 | 43.12% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 17.65% | 1960 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)'s monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) rose 0.8 percentage points on 2024 (from 32.92% to 33.72%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.61 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.21 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 5.77 percentage points in 2007 and the biggest yearly fall was 8.38 percentage points in 2022. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is downward, about 2.19 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 83% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
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| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) | 33.72% | 2025 |
| World | 90.64% | 2024 |
What this measures
Domestic credit to private sector refers to financial resources provided to the private sector, such as through loans, purchases of nonequity securities, and trade credits and other accounts receivable, that establish a claim for repayment. For some countries these claims include credit to public enterprises. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 61 values
| Year | Monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 33.72 |
| 2024 | 32.92 |
| 2023 | 35.83 |
| 2022 | 38.1 |
| 2021 | 46.48 |
| 2020 | 50.42 |
| 2019 | 45.04 |
| 2018 | 46.87 |
| 2017 | 50.3 |
| 2016 | 51.47 |
| 2015 |
Monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 3.1% (2020)
- Algeria — 19.59% (2025)
- Bahrain — 70.55% (2015)
- Djibouti — 25.16% (2025)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 25.84% (2025)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 57.83% (2016)
- Iraq — 13.99% (2024)
- Israel — 72.47% (2025)
- Jordan — 71.31% (2025)
- Kuwait
More financial sector data for Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)
- Domestic credit to private sector by banks (% of GDP) — 33.88% (2025)
- Broad money (% of GDP) — 40.6% (2025)
- Claims on central government, etc. (% of GDP) — 10.15% (2025)
- Inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) — 4.7% (2025)
- Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) — 4.07% (2025)
- Stocks traded, turnover ratio of domestic shares (%) — 188.11% (2024)
- Stocks traded, total value (current US$) — US$977.72 billion (2025)
- Stocks traded, total value (% of GDP)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)'s monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP)?
- 33.72% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1960?
- It is up 16.06 percentage points from 17.65% in 1960. The highest value was 51.47% in 2016 and the lowest 10.77% in 1995.
- Is the latest change in monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) unusual for Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)?
- In 2025, Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)'s monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) rose 0.8 percentage points on 2024 (from 32.92% to 33.72%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.61 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.21 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator FM.AST.PRVT.GD.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF); World Development Indicators Database, World Bank (WB); National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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