Real interest rate

An interest rate is the amount charged, expressed as a percentage of the principal over a period of time, by the owners of certain kinds of financial assets for putting the financial assets at the disposal of another institutional unit. The real interest rate is the lending interest rate adjusted for inflation as measured by the GDP deflator. The terms and conditions attached to lending rates differ by country, however, limiting their comparability. This indicator is expressed as a percentage (a÷b)*100.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
147
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

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators, World Bank (WB)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Algeria20257.16percent
Angola2025-0.93percent
Antigua and Barbuda20253.31percent
Argentina20254.98percent
Armenia20259.86percent
Azerbaijan202514.68percent
Bangladesh20251.97percent
Belarus20250.03percent
Belize20257.34percent
Bhutan20258.34percent

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