Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 14 / Trend /
Deposits of the population, drawn to the banking system from the Azerbaijani regions (areas of the country, except for Baku), as of 2012 amounted to 359.11 million manat or 7.02 percent of total volume of bank deposits.
The volume of deposits on Baku amounted to 4.754.3 billion manat, while the deposits in national currency hit 2.693.1 billion manat. The average percent rate in the country during this period was 8.4 percent while 8.5 percent in Baku.
The amount of deposits on Absheron economic region amounted to 109.86 million manat, with an average rate of 9.2 percent, Aran - 55.15 million manat at 5.4 percent, the Mountain-Shirvan - 8.3 million manat at 6.8 percent, Ganja -Gazakh - 76.01 million manat at 7.7 percent, Guba-Khachmaz - 25.6 million manat at 7.2 percent, Lankaran - 27.56 million manat at 7.3 percent, Sheki-Zagatala - 22.6 million manat at 6.1 percent, the Upper Karabakh - 8.16 million manat at 3.5 percent, Kalbajar-Lachin - 1.8 million manat at 6.3 percent, Nakhchivan - 24.03 million manat at 3.3 percent.
The volume of physical entities' deposits hit 5.113.4 billion manat in 2012 increasing by 24.12 percent.
As of 2012, the depositary base of Azerbaijani banks increased by 13.25 percent.
The total amount of bank deposits and deposits of physical and legal entities totalled 10.699.2 billion manat in 2012.
Today, 42 of the 43 banks operating in the country are members of the Azerbaijan Deposit Insurance Fund.
The official exchange rate is 0,7847 AZN/USD on Feb. 14.