Khaberni - The total loans and facilities increased until August of the current year by 2.7%, compared to the same period in 2024, while the value of credit card loans grew by about 9.6%, measured to the end of 2024, according to data shown by the Central Bank of Jordan.
Data from the Central Bank indicate that the value of facilities and loans provided by banks to customers in 8 months of the year 2025 reached 35.733 billion dinars, versus 34.604 billion dinars in the same period last year, noting that at the end of 2024, the value of facilities reached about 34.778 billion dinars.
Looking at the distribution of facilities and loans from the beginning of the current year until the end of last August, the private sector, both resident and non-resident, received the majority of the facilities, with 31.793 billion dinars, accounting for 89% of the total, while the value of public sector facilities reached about 3.920 billion dinars.
Delving into the loan and facility data during 8 months of the current year, it appears that the loans of the type "current debit," which provides loans to employees of companies and institutions, amount to 2.675 billion dinars, lower than what it was in the same period last year, when it reached 2.820 billion dinars, whereas the value of credit card loans reached 421 million dinars, compared to 390 million dinars during the comparison period.
In 2024, the complete indebtedness of individuals reached about 14 billion dinars, the share of housing loans from it being about 5.734 billion dinars, ranking first in the value of individual indebtedness, and personal loans came second with a value that reached about 4.481 billion dinars, approximately.
