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Sierra Leone: Risk premium on lending

19.53percent · 2025+17.1% since 2015

Risk premium on lending is the interest rate charged by banks on loans to private sector customers minus the "risk free" treasury bill interest rate at which short-term government securities are issued or traded in the market. In some countries this spread may be negative, indicating that the market considers its best corporate clients to be lower risk than the government. The terms and conditions attached to lending rates differ by country, however, limiting their comparability. Reported as: lending rate minus treasury bill rate. Annual figures for Sierra Leone from 1965 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202519.532
202411.816
202318.251
202215.458
202117.147
20209.932
20199.529
20188.013
20175.694
20169.94
201516.674
201417.045
201312.511
2012-1.397
2011-3.445
20104.038
200911.695
20089.019
20076.592
20066.289
20051.606
2004-4.058
20034.328
20027.015
200110.525
20000.028
1999-5.586
19981.73
199711.158
19962.869
199514.105
199415.148
199321.82
1992-15.799
19915.583
19905
19897.667
198810
198712.042
19862.688
19855
19846
19836.25
19825
19815
19801.625
19794.75
19785.5
19775.5
19763.5
19753
19742.5
19732.5
19722.5
19712.5
19702.5
19692.5
19682
19672.417
19662.5
19652.5

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Monetary Fund. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Risk premium on lending. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-risk-premium-on-lending (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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