COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Lesotho Domestic Credit to Private Sector
Lesotho domestic credit to private sector: latest available value for 2024, historical series from 2014, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
FS.AST.PRVT.GD.ZS| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24,30 | -0,43 |
| 2023 | 24,73 | 3,03 |
| 2022 | 21,70 | -0,63 |
| 2021 | 22,33 | 0,39 |
| 2020 | 21,93 | 0,61 |
| 2019 | 21,32 | 1,19 |
| 2018 | 20,13 | 0,13 |
| 2017 | 20,00 | 1,79 |
| 2016 | 18,21 | -0,06 |
| 2015 | 18,27 | -1,06 |
| 2014 | 19,33 | — |
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)
Metadata fetched: 2026-09-27 04:17:37. Open original metadata response.
Revision history
8 detected changesSource revisions are retained before the current observation is replaced. This table documents the previous and replacement value for reproducibility.
| Detected | Data year | Previous value | Replacement value | Source | Source update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-28 21:54:30 | 2019 | 21,32 | 21,32 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 21:54:30 | 2020 | 21,93 | 21,93 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 21:54:30 | 2021 | 22,33 | 22,33 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 21:54:30 | 2022 | 21,70 | 21,70 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 21:54:30 | 2023 | 24,73 | 24,73 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 21:54:30 | 2024 | 24,30 | 24,30 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-08-15 00:21:43 | 2019 | 21,32 | 21,32 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-08-01 00:28:41 | 2019 | 21,32 | 21,32 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesLesotho recorded 24,30 percent of GDP in 2024, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2023, the domestic credit to private sector decreased by 0,43.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 11 observations from 2014 to 2024, the average was 21,11; the minimum was 18,21 in 2016 and the maximum was 24,73 in 2023.
Lesotho ranks 129 out of 186 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is above the available average for Sub-Saharan Africa.
It is also below the available average for the Lower middle income group.
Financial intermediation and access to credit.