COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Lao PDR Domestic Credit to Private Sector
Lao PDR domestic credit to private sector: latest available value for 2010, historical series from 1989, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
FS.AST.PRVT.GD.ZS| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 20,92 | 3,68 |
| 2009 | 17,24 | 7,68 |
| 2008 | 9,57 | 3,02 |
| 2007 | 6,54 | 0,67 |
| 2006 | 5,87 | -1,48 |
| 2005 | 7,35 | 0,64 |
| 2004 | 6,71 | -0,21 |
| 2003 | 6,92 | -1,59 |
| 2002 | 8,51 | -1,07 |
| 2001 | 9,59 | 0,66 |
| 2000 | 8,93 | 0,49 |
| 1999 | 8,44 | -4,18 |
| 1998 | 12,62 | -0,35 |
| 1997 | 12,97 | 3,95 |
| 1996 | 9,02 | -0,06 |
| 1995 | 9,08 | 0,16 |
| 1994 | 8,92 | 1,99 |
| 1993 | 6,93 | 2,26 |
| 1992 | 4,67 | 1,71 |
| 1991 | 2,95 | 1,99 |
| 1990 | 0,96 | -0,09 |
| 1989 | 1,06 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator 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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Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesLao PDR recorded 20,92 percent of GDP in 2010, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2009, the domestic credit to private sector increased by 3,68.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 22 observations from 1989 to 2010, the average was 8,44; the minimum was 0,96 in 1990 and the maximum was 20,92 in 2010.
Lao PDR ranks 133 out of 173 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for East Asia & Pacific.
It is also below the available average for the Lower middle income group.
Financial intermediation and access to credit.