43.6 Percent of This Year's Five Month Bank Lending Went to Industry and Mining

According to Ecoiran, published today, Saturday, 21 Shahrivar 1405 (September 12, 2026), total loans extended by Iran's banking network to economic sectors and consumers over the first five months of the 1405 Iranian calendar year (through late August) reached 5,518 trillion tomans (5,518 hemmat). Per the report, economic sectors together received 75.9 percent of this lending, with the remaining 24.1 percent going to consumers and households.

Among economic sectors, industry and mining took the largest share, receiving 1,827 trillion tomans, or 43.6 percent of total lending to economic sectors. It was followed by services with a 33.7 percent share, commerce with 14.3 percent, agriculture with 5.7 percent, and housing and construction with 2.7 percent.