Interest rate spread

Interest rate spread is the interest rate charged by banks on loans to private sector customers minus the interest rate paid by commercial or similar banks for demand, time, or savings deposits. The terms and conditions attached to these rates differ by country, however, limiting their comparability. Reported as: lending rate minus deposit rate.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
139
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    International Monetary Fund

    International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Algeria20256.25percent
Angola202511.39percent
Antigua and Barbuda20255.06percent
Argentina202511.16percent
Armenia20255.75percent
Azerbaijan20255.98percent
Bahamas20253.66percent
Bangladesh2025-0.73percent
Belarus20254.18percent
Belize20256.50percent

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