Domestic credit to private sector in Sri Lanka in 2019 was 47.01% of GDP. In 2018, the value was amounted to 46.70% of GDP. It has been growing in this country for already 6 years in a row. Since 1960, for the whole period of data from IMF, this indicator has increased in 6.46 times. The lowest domestic credit to private sector as a share of GDP in Sri Lanka was recorded in 1962, with a value of 7.23%. The highest value was in 2019, when it reached 47.01% of GDP.
Domestic credit to private sector refers to financial resources provided to the private sector by financial corporations, 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.
Domestic credit to private sector | Sri Lanka – yearly data, chart and table
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Sum in constant 2015 dollars
Per capita
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Source:
World bank,
OECD,
IMF
World bank
https://www.worldbank.org
https://www.worldbank.org
OECD
http://oecdru.org
http://oecdru.org
IMF
https://www.imf.org
https://www.imf.org
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About indicator
Domestic credit to private sector refers to financial resources provided to the private sector by financial corporations, 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. The financial corporations include monetary authorities and deposit money banks, as well as other financial corporations where data are available (including corporations that do not accept transferable deposits but do incur such liabilities as time and savings deposits). Examples of other financial corporations are finance and leasing companies, money lenders, insurance corporations, pension funds, and foreign exchange companies.
