Bahrain Domestic Credit to Private Sector

Indicator note: 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. 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.

Source organization: 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)

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Bahrain recorded 70,55 percent of GDP in 2015, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2014, the domestic credit to private sector increased by 9,22.

Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.

Across 46 observations from 1970 to 2015, the average was 41,58; the minimum was 13,26 in 1970 and the maximum was 71,44 in 2009.

Bahrain ranks 43 out of 186 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is above the available average for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan.

It is also below the available average for the High income group.

Financial intermediation and access to credit.