Credit to Agriculture and Forestry — Value Standard Local Currency by country
Credit to agriculture measures the amount of loans and advances given by the banking sector to farmers, rural households, agricultural cooperatives, or any other agri-related businesses. Each country’s central bank compiles its credit stocks by economic activities as part of its monetary and financial statistics...
What the numbers show
Credit to Agriculture and Forestry — Value Standard Local Currency is currently reported for 25 countries. The highest value is 2.40 million million SLC in Argentina; the lowest is 79.8 million SLC in Ecuador.
The median across all reporting countries is 59,026 million SLC, and the mean is 346,225 million SLC.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 30,066.
Over the past decade 22 countries rose and 3 fell. The largest increase was in Argentina (up 3,876.7%), and the largest decrease in Togo (down 65.0%).
Credit to Agriculture and Forestry — Value Standard Local Currency: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Argentina | 2.40 million million SLC | 2024 | up 3,876.7% | volatile |
| 2 | Uganda | 2.24 million million SLC | 2022 | up 281.0% | volatile |
| 3 | Nigeria | 1.46 million million SLC | 2021 | up 471.2% | volatile |
| 4 | Japan | 842,500 million SLC | 2024 | up 34.9% | rising |
| 5 | Nepal | 364,806 million SLC | 2024 | up 616.7% | volatile |
| 6 | Pakistan | 324,414 million SLC | 2022 | up 53.6% | rising |
| 7 | Angola | 255,871 million SLC | 2019 | up 2,148.7% | volatile |
| 8 | Philippines | 204,187 million SLC | 2013 | up 95.1% | rising |
| 9 | Mali | 110,557 million SLC | 2021 | up 113.3% | volatile |
| 10 | Senegal | 84,938 million SLC | 2021 | up 233.9% | volatile |
| 11 | Thailand | 81,647 million SLC | 2023 | down 5.6% | falling |
| 12 | Czechia | 59,417 million SLC | 2018 | up 73.2% | rising |
| 13 | Burkina Faso | 59,026 million SLC | 2021 | up 100.6% | volatile |
| 14 | Benin | 55,830 million SLC | 2021 | up 128.1% | volatile |
| 15 | Malaysia | 34,736 million SLC | 2023 | up 11.9% | rising |
| 16 | Ukraine | 34,143 million SLC | 2011 | up 1,216.7% | volatile |
| 17 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 17,669 million SLC | 2023 | up 22.1% | rising |
| 18 | Guyana | 13,368 million SLC | 2021 | up 38.3% | volatile |
| 19 | Albania | 7,080 million SLC | 2015 | up 232.9% | rising |
| 20 | Niger | 6,219 million SLC | 2018 | up 80.3% | volatile |
| 21 | Ireland | 3,539 million SLC | 2020 | down 28.8% | falling |
| 22 | Guinea-Bissau | 1,770 million SLC | 2021 | up 158.0% | volatile |
| 23 | Togo | 548 million SLC | 2021 | down 65.0% | volatile |
| 24 | Suriname | 147 million SLC | 2019 | up 100.5% | rising |
| 25 | Ecuador | 79.8 million SLC | 2014 | up 1,039.4% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Côte d'Ivoire 128,803 million SLC
About this data
Credit to agriculture measures the amount of loans and advances given by the banking sector to farmers, rural households, agricultural cooperatives, or any other agri-related businesses. Each country’s central bank compiles its credit stocks by economic activities as part of its monetary and financial statistics publications via annual or quarterly reports online. Data collection has been carried out mostly through reports found on the central bank websites. Data are collected and compiled according to the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC Rev. 4: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/classifications/Econ/isic) with a special concentration on the credit to agriculture, forestry and fishing sector separately from the ones to manufacturing and services.