Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP)

For 2025, Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP) is led by Hong Kong SAR, China at 222.65%. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.

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.

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0.055.7111167223Hong Kong SAR, ChinaHong Kong SAR, China: 222.65%223United StatesUnited States: 201.27%201JapanJapan: 187.41%187New ZealandNew Zealand: 143.38%143ThailandThailand: 143.08%143AustraliaAustralia: 133.79%134QatarQatar: 126.75%127CambodiaCambodia: 121.48%121FijiFiji: 118.96%119MalaysiaMalaysia: 117.94%118Macao SAR, ChinaMacao SAR, China: 117.04%117ChileChile: 102.08%102
Rank Country Value
51 Indonesia 36.28%
52 Mexico 35.50%
53 Serbia 35.36%
54 Bangladesh 34.50%
55 Tonga 34.11%
56 Botswana 33.23%
57 Dominican Republic 32.85%
58 Uzbekistan 31.21%
59 Senegal 30.88%
60 Uruguay 30.76%
61 Kazakhstan 27.71%
62 Egypt, Arab Rep. 25.84%
63 Djibouti 25.16%
64 Azerbaijan 24.86%
65 Eswatini 23.08%
66 Togo 23.00%
67 Burkina Faso 22.72%
68 Cote d'Ivoire 22.68%
69 Rwanda 22.09%
70 Romania 22.07%
71 Mali 20.41%
72 Suriname 20.27%
73 Benin 19.77%
74 Algeria 19.59%
75 Mozambique 18.27%
76 Argentina 17.60%
77 Guyana 15.61%
78 Libya 12.54%
79 Pakistan 10.73%
80 Guinea 10.57%
81 Guinea-Bissau 9.99%
82 Niger 9.57%
83 Angola 6.58%
84 Sierra Leone 5.50%
85 Kuwait 4.92%
86 South Sudan 3.24%
87 Haiti 3.21%
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

Analytical takeaways

  • Hong Kong SAR, China sits at the top of the Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP) distribution in 2025 at 222.65%, with a lead of 21.38% over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is Timor-Leste at 39.15%, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits Haiti (3.21%), and the page currently covers 87 countries.

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