North America: Claims on other sectors of the domestic economy (% of GDP)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, North America's claims on other sectors of the domestic economy (% of GDP) rose 5.36 percentage points on 2024 (from 202.75% to 208.11%).

Across the 23 yearly changes before that (2002 to 2024), the average change was +1.01 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 12.09 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.4 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 22.87 percentage points in 2020 and the biggest yearly fall was 34.43 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 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 1% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

What this measures

Claims on other sectors of the domestic economy include gross credit from the financial system to households, nonprofit institutions serving households, nonfinancial corporations, state and local governments, and social security funds. 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 25 values

Claims on other sectors of the domestic economy (% of GDP) in nearby economies

• Israel — 95.31% (2023)
• Morocco — 92.15% (2025)
• Tunisia — 71.56% (2025)

More financial sector data for North America

• Domestic credit to private sector by banks (% of GDP) — 44.51% (2025)
• Monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) — 44.51% (2025)
• Broad money (% of GDP) — 99.72% (2025)
• Claims on central government, etc. (% of GDP) — 54.19% (2025)
• Domestic credit provided by financial sector (% of GDP) — 262.3% (2025)
• Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP) — 201.27% (2025)
• Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) — 2.67% (2024)
• Inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) — 2.68% (2025)
• Market capitalization of listed domestic companies (current US$)

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Questions people ask

What is North America's claims on other sectors of the domestic economy (% of GDP)?

208.11% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2001?

It is up 28.56 percentage points from 179.55% in 2001. The highest value was 229.37% in 2021 and the lowest 171.57% in 2002.

Is the latest change in claims on other sectors of the domestic economy (% of GDP) unusual for North America?

In 2025, North America's claims on other sectors of the domestic economy (% of GDP) rose 5.36 percentage points on 2024 (from 202.75% to 208.11%). Across the 23 yearly changes before that (2002 to 2024), the average change was +1.01 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 12.09 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.4 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 FS.AST.DOMO.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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