South Sudan's monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) was 3.24% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 0.94 percentage points from 2.3% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 3.24% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 1.93% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 2.3% | 2015 |
| Highest | 5.76% | 2024 |
| Lowest | 0.5% | 2011 |
| Average since 2016 | 2.91% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 0.5% | 2011 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, South Sudan's monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) fell 2.52 percentage points on 2024 (from 5.76% to 3.24%).
Across the 13 yearly changes before that (2012 to 2024), the average change was +0.41 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.26 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.3 standard deviations below that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 2.72 percentage points in 2024 and the biggest yearly fall was 2.72 percentage points in 2017. 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 17% 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.
How it compares
In 2025, South Sudan had the 104th highest value of the 104 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| South Sudan | 3.24% | 2025 |
| World | 90.64% | 2024 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 24.81% | 2023 |
| Low income | 12.45% | 2020 |
Closest to South Sudan in the 2025 ranking
- Angola — 100th of 104: 5.77%
- Sierra Leone — 101st of 104: 5.5%
- Kuwait — 102nd of 104: 4.92%
- Haiti — 104th of 104: 3.21%
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 15 values
| Year | Monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.24 |
| 2024 | 5.76 |
| 2023 | 3.05 |
| 2022 | 3.02 |
| 2021 | 2.75 |
| 2020 | 1.93 |
| 2019 | 1.7 |
| 2018 | 1.53 |
| 2017 | 1.71 |
| 2016 | 4.42 |
| 2015 |
Monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) in nearby economies
- Angola — 5.77% (2025)
- Benin — 19.78% (2025)
- Botswana — 33.23% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 22.72% (2025)
- Burundi — 38.54% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 54.04% (2025)
- Cameroon — 14.09% (2019)
- Central African Republic — 13.04% (2022)
- Chad — 8.32% (2021)
- Comoros
More financial sector data for South Sudan
- DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$) — US$3,657 (2025)
- Consumer price index (2010 = 100) — 41,281 (2024)
- Commercial bank branches (per 100,000 adults) — 1.7 (2024)
- Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) — 91.44% (2024)
- Domestic credit to private sector by banks (% of GDP) — 3.18% (2025)
- Bank liquid reserves to bank assets ratio (%) — 86.98% (2025)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU) — 13.26 trillion (2025)
- Net foreign assets (current LCU) — -6.33 trillion (2025)
- Broad money (current LCU) — 4.61 trillion (2025)
- Broad money (% of GDP)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is South Sudan's monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP)?
- 3.24% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2011?
- It is up 2.74 percentage points from 0.5% in 2011. The highest value was 5.76% in 2024 and the lowest 0.5% in 2011.
- How does South Sudan rank?
- 104th highest of 104 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) unusual for South Sudan?
- In 2025, South Sudan's monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) fell 2.52 percentage points on 2024 (from 5.76% to 3.24%). Across the 13 yearly changes before that (2012 to 2024), the average change was +0.41 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.26 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.3 standard deviations below that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
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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