Average amount of credits granted in the year per adult

The indicator reports the amounts of new credits contracted during the year to the population aged 18 and over (may have a credit). To enable a reliable interpretation, only new appropriations entered into during the year are taken into account because the data on the amount of a credit refers to the amount of the credit when it is opened. When a credit is older, the credit is usually partially repaid and information on the outstanding balance should be available. These are not available. Note: the data at the level of the contract are disseminated by postal code on the website of the credit centre to individuals. They were aggregated at the municipal level by the IWEPS. It is possible that this aggregation leads to some double counting. When a credit is contracted by several people who do not live in the same postal code, the data is entered in the file for each of the postal codes concerned. If two contractors live in the same municipality but not the same postal code, there will be duplicate information related to the credit (amount, number,...). These cases are probably rare because loans to several borrowers usually concern people domiciled at the same address. Note that the refinancing of a mortgage credit is considered a new credit. This is partly the reason for the sharp increase between 2014 and 2015. See also: — the website of the National Bank of Belgium (BNB), ‘[\2](\1)’.