Qatar’s Q3 2026 findings documented a sustained rise in private-sector credit relative to GDP through 2025. Private-sector credit rose for 3 straight years, from 101% of GDP in 2022 to 127% in 2025, an increase of 26 percentage points.
An earlier finding, later replaced by a newer version, recorded bank credit to the private sector at 100.68% of GDP in 2022 and 126.24% in 2025. It identified a sustained increasing trend over 4 consecutive years and reported a total change of 25.6 percentage points.
A separate earlier finding, also later replaced, recorded private-sector credit at 126.75% of GDP in 2025, 2.23 standard deviations above the 1990–2024 historical mean of 56.51%; the historical standard deviation was 31.57 percentage points. Taken together, the quarter’s findings documented an annual rise through 2025 and an elevated reading relative to the historical mean, rather than movements within Q3 2026.
The findings were statistically detected from multilateral sources and checked before publication; the supplied material did not name those sources. The brief covered findings published during Q3 2026.