Countries by domestic credit to the private sector

Cyprus had the highest domestic credit to the private sector of 173 countries in 2012, at 249.2% of GDP. South Sudan had the lowest, at 1.1% of GDP. The median was 39% of GDP and the figure for the World was 115.4% of GDP. Source: the World Bank.

Highest249.2Cyprus

Lowest1.1South Sudan

Median39173 countries

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Top 40 countries, 2012

% of GDP. Source: World Bank, Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP) (FS.AST.PRVT.GD.ZS). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2012 % of GDP	Change on 2011
1	Cyprus	249.2	+6.7 pts
2	Hong Kong	198.5	-3.8 pts
3	Denmark	182.3	-4.8 pts
4	United States	175.4	+1 pts
5	United Kingdom	160	-9.6 pts
6	Switzerland	159.6	+5.7 pts
7	Japan	157.9	+0.1 pts
8	Spain	157.4	-9.6 pts
9	Portugal	152.7	-3.3 pts
10	Thailand	136.2	+5.6 pts
11	Sweden	128.7	+4 pts
12	China	126.8	+5.7 pts
13	South Africa	125.2	+6.2 pts
14	South Korea	125.1	-1.9 pts
15	Australia	120.8	-1 pts
16	Greece	120.1	+0.9 pts
17	Norway	119.8	-2.4 pts
18	Iceland	116.3	-18.5 pts
19	Netherlands	116	+2.5 pts
20	Malaysia	114.1	+5.7 pts
21	Singapore	113	+8.3 pts
22	Ireland	110.6	-4.1 pts
23	Malta	108.6	-8.3 pts
24	Chile	104.3	+2.4 pts
25	Mauritius	97.5	+9.4 pts
26	France	96.6	-0.1 pts
27	Austria	94.8	-1.8 pts
28	Italy	93.3	-0.3 pts
29	Saint Lucia	92.8	+4.7 pts
30	Finland	92.1	+2.5 pts
31	Lebanon	90	-0 pts
32	Morocco	87.8	+1 pts
33	Luxembourg	83.6	-0.6 pts
34	Grenada	82.8	-2.1 pts
35	Germany	82.2	-1.1 pts
36	Slovenia	80	-2.5 pts
37	Panama	79.6	-0.7 pts
38	Fiji	76.8	+1.4 pts
39	Vietnam	75.5	-4.4 pts
40	Vanuatu	73.7	+4.4 pts
41	Estonia	72.2	-5.5 pts
42	Barbados	71.9	n/a
43	Croatia	69.2	n/a
44	Latvia	67.2	-15.7 pts
45	Ukraine	67	-1.5 pts
46	Bahrain	66.5	-0.4 pts
47	Israel	66.4	-1.1 pts
48	Bulgaria	65.8	+0.5 pts
49	Samoa	65.1	+1.6 pts
50	Jordan	64.7	-0.3 pts
51	Brazil	62.5	+4.4 pts
52	Antigua and Barbuda	61.9	-5.8 pts
53	Bahamas	61.8	-4.2 pts
54	Bosnia and Herzegovina	61.7	+1.2 pts
55	Saint Kitts and Nevis	59.2	+0.8 pts
56	Aruba	58.7	+2.4 pts
57	Cape Verde	58.6	-1.4 pts
58	Tunisia	57.9	-0.1 pts
59	Macao	57.6	+1.4 pts
60	Kuwait	55.7	-5.1 pts
61	Montenegro	55.3	-0.5 pts
62	Dominica	55.2	+2.8 pts
63	Belgium	54.5	-0.5 pts
64	India	51.9	+0.6 pts
65	Türkiye	51.6	+2.8 pts
66	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	51.5	+1.3 pts
67	Honduras	51.3	+4 pts
68	Hungary	50.4	-8 pts
69	Poland	50.3	-1.2 pts
70	Iran	49.6	+0.4 pts
71	El Salvador	49.3	-0.7 pts
72	Czechia	49.1	+1.1 pts
73	Nepal	48.8	+2.3 pts
74	North Macedonia	48.1	n/a
75	Costa Rica	47.5	+1.4 pts
76	Lithuania	46.8	-3.1 pts
77	Belize	46.5	-1.1 pts
78	Slovakia	46.2	+0.2 pts
79	Serbia	44.7	+1.6 pts
80	Russia	43.9	+2.2 pts
81	Mongolia	43.7	+0.2 pts
82	Bangladesh	43	+0.5 pts
83	Bhutan	42.3	-0.8 pts
84	Albania	41	+0.2 pts
85	São Tomé and Príncipe	41	+1.3 pts
86	Armenia	40.1	+4.7 pts
87	Bolivia	39	+2.2 pts
88	Colombia	37.7	+2.8 pts
89	Qatar	37.1	-2.6 pts
90	Oman	36.8	+0.7 pts
91	Romania	36	-1.5 pts
92	Saudi Arabia	35.6	+1.9 pts
93	Georgia	35.5	+2.7 pts
94	Maldives	35.1	-7.3 pts
95	Peru	34	+1.7 pts
96	Sri Lanka	34	+0.3 pts
97	Moldova	33.7	+3.8 pts
98	Indonesia	33.4	+3.4 pts
99	Botswana	32.9	+5.1 pts
100	Guatemala	32.2	+8.2 pts
101	Philippines	31.9	+1.4 pts
102	Paraguay	31.5	+2.6 pts
103	Tonga	30.6	-2.4 pts
104	Cambodia	30.5	+7.9 pts
105	Jamaica	29	+2.2 pts
106	Djibouti	28.9	-2 pts
107	Guyana	28.8	+2.3 pts
108	Nicaragua	28.7	+2.5 pts
109	Ecuador	28.4	+0.9 pts
110	Brunei	28	-0.1 pts
111	Egypt	27.4	-3.8 pts
112	Trinidad and Tobago	27	-1.2 pts
113	Kenya	26.4	-1 pts
114	Mexico	24.9	+1.3 pts
115	Senegal	24.4	+0.6 pts
116	Suriname	24.2	+0.5 pts
117	Palestine	24	+1.1 pts
118	Venezuela	23.9	+3.4 pts
119	Papua New Guinea	22.9	+1.9 pts
120	Dominican Republic	22.5	-0.4 pts
121	Mozambique	22.4	+1.5 pts
122	Uruguay	22.2	+0.2 pts
123	Togo	21.9	+1.8 pts
124	Belarus	21.8	-16.2 pts
125	Seychelles	20.9	-1.5 pts
126	Burundi	20.3	-1.3 pts
127	Zimbabwe	20.1	+1.2 pts
128	Eswatini	19.7	-3.1 pts
129	Solomon Islands	19.7	+0.9 pts
130	Micronesia	19.5	-0.2 pts
131	Lesotho	18.6	+4.2 pts
132	Ghana	18.1	+0.9 pts
133	Mauritania	16.8	+0.2 pts
134	Burkina Faso	16.6	+1.3 pts
135	Mali	16.4	+1 pts
136	Eritrea	16.2	-1.4 pts
137	Rwanda	16	+2.5 pts
138	Zambia	15.9	+2.2 pts
139	Benin	15.6	-0.9 pts
140	Argentina	15.2	+1.2 pts
141	Pakistan	15.2	-1.6 pts
142	Tajikistan	14.6	-1.4 pts
143	Timor-Leste	13.8	+1.1 pts
144	Côte d’Ivoire	13.7	+0.5 pts
145	Kyrgyzstan	13.4	+1.9 pts
146	Algeria	12.9	+0.3 pts
147	Tanzania	12.8	+0.5 pts
148	Cameroon	12.4	+0.1 pts
149	Guinea-Bissau	12.2	+3.5 pts
150	Uganda	12.2	+0.5 pts
151	Comoros	12.1	+1.5 pts
152	Sudan	11.9	+2.7 pts
153	Gabon	11.3	+1.8 pts
154	Haiti	10.8	+2.3 pts
155	Central African Republic	10.8	+1.6 pts
156	Nigeria	10.6	-0.4 pts
157	Madagascar	10.1	-0.1 pts
158	Gambia	10.1	-0.3 pts
159	Liberia	10	-0.3 pts
160	Malawi	10	+0.4 pts
161	Niger	10	0 pts
162	Libya	9.3	-4.8 pts
163	Myanmar	9.3	+2.6 pts
164	Republic of the Congo	7.4	+0.2 pts
165	Guinea	5.9	-0.9 pts
166	Iraq	5.9	+0.5 pts
167	Equatorial Guinea	4.8	-1.6 pts
168	Democratic Republic of the Congo	4.7	+0.8 pts
169	Yemen	4.6	-0.4 pts
170	Afghanistan	4.5	-0.5 pts
171	Chad	4	+0.5 pts
172	Sierra Leone	3.4	-1.2 pts
173	South Sudan	1.1	+0.6 pts

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Financial corporations' claims on the private sector, including loans, non-equity securities and trade credit, as a percentage of GDP. Some countries include credit to public enterprises.

Can include central banks, deposit banks and other financial corporations, so it is not a bank-loans-only measure. A published zero is valid. The latest year varies by country.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 12 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2012 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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World Bank, World Development Indicators. Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP) (FS.AST.PRVT.GD.ZS). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FS.AST.PRVT.GD.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP) (FS.AST.PRVT.GD.ZS), Countries by domestic credit to the private sector, 2012. World Bank, 8 Oct. 2026, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FS.AST.PRVT.GD.ZS. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/domestic-credit-private-sector/countries?period=2012. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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  title = {{Domestic credit to private sector (\% of GDP) (FS.AST.PRVT.GD.ZS): Countries by domestic credit to the private sector, 2012}},
  year = {2026},
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  urldate = {2026-10-12},
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Which country has the highest domestic credit to the private sector?

Cyprus, with 249.2% of GDP in 2012, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest domestic credit to the private sector?

South Sudan, with 1.1% of GDP in 2012.

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Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Bank, Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP) (FS.AST.PRVT.GD.ZS). Retrieved 2026-10-12. 12 countries have no value for 2012 and are not ranked.

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