Bank lending in Azerbaijani districts up

4 April 2020 13:29 (UTC+04:00)

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Bank lending in Baku and Azerbaijani districts reached 15.2 billion manat ($8.9 billion) in early March 2020, which is 14.6 percent more compared to the same period of 2019, Trend reports referring to the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA).

According to CBA, loans worth 12.3 billion manat ($7.2 billion) were issued in Baku as of March 1, which is 4 times more than in the districts. At the same time, loans in national currency in Baku amounted to 7 billion manat ($4.1 billion), or 46 percent of the total lending volume in Baku.

As of March 1, the average annual interest rate on loans in Azerbaijan amounted to 11 percent and to 9.15 percent in Baku.

Distribution of loans in the Azerbaijani districts as of March 1, 2020:

	Lending (in 1,000 manat)	Average interest rate (%)	Share of total loans
Azerbaijan	15.3 million ($9 million)	11.02	100
Baku	12.3 million ($7.2 million)	9.14	80.4
Economic regions	2.3 million ($1.3 million)	17.09	19.6
Absheron	545,693 ($320,995)	15.89	3.6
Aran	775,677 ($456,280)	21.19	5.1
Mountainous-Shirvan	73,685 ($43,344)	21.,20	0.5
Ganja-Gazakh	639,264 ($376,037)	18.52	4.2
Guba-Khachmaz	210,146 ($123,615)	18.85	1.4
Lankaran	287,571 ($169,159)	20.40	1.9
Shaki-Zagatala	227,835 ($134,020)	16.74	1.5
Upper-Karabakh	60,529 ($35,605)	23.90	0.4
Kalbajar-Lachin	0	0.00	0.0
Nakhchivan	174,039 ($102,375)	14.20	1.1