All rankings Currencies & Rates
Lending rate
% per year, average bank lending rate
- Order
- Lowest to highest · Show highest first
- Countries
- 39 of 54 have data · 15 without data
- Period
- Latest figures range from 2014 to 2025: 13 countries report 2025; 26 report earlier years.
- Source
- World Bank · annual
Countries’ latest figures come from different years. Each row shows its own year, so figures from different years are not a like-for-like comparison.
Download CSV Compare countries on this measure
| Rank | Country | Value (%) | Year | Change from previous figure | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire+ compare | 5.29% ↑ 0.14 pts from previous figure | 2016 | ↑ 0.14 pts | + compare |
| 2 | 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau+ compare | 5.29% ↑ 0.14 pts from previous figure | 2016 | ↑ 0.14 pts | + compare |
| 3 | 🇲🇱 Mali+ compare | 5.29% ↑ 0.14 pts from previous figure | 2016 | ↑ 0.14 pts | + compare |
| 4 | 🇳🇪 Niger+ compare | 5.29% ↑ 0.14 pts from previous figure | 2016 | ↑ 0.14 pts | + compare |
| 5 | 🇸🇳 Senegal+ compare | 5.29% ↑ 0.14 pts from previous figure | 2016 | ↑ 0.14 pts | + compare |
| 6 | 🇹🇬 Togo+ compare | 5.29% ↑ 0.14 pts from previous figure | 2016 | ↑ 0.14 pts | + compare |
| 7 | 🇱🇾 Libya+ compare | 6% | 2014 | — | + compare |
| 8 | 🇧🇯 Benin+ compare | 6.25% ↓ 0.29 pts from previous figure | 2021 | ↓ 0.29 pts | + compare |
| 9 | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso+ compare | 6.25% ↓ 0.29 pts from previous figure | 2021 | ↓ 0.29 pts | + compare |
| 10 | 🇧🇼 Botswana+ compare | 6.26% ↓ 0.48 pts from previous figure | 2024 | ↓ 0.48 pts | + compare |
| 11 | 🇨🇻 Cabo Verde+ compare | 7.75% ↓ 0.04 pts from previous figure | 2025 | ↓ 0.04 pts | + compare |
| 12 | 🇩🇿 Algeria+ compare | 8% → 0 from previous figure | 2025 | → 0 | + compare |
| 13 | 🇰🇲 Comoros+ compare | 8.03% ↑ 0.16 pts from previous figure | 2022 | ↑ 0.16 pts | + compare |
| 14 | 🇲🇺 Mauritius+ compare | 9% ↓ 0.38 pts from previous figure | 2025 | ↓ 0.38 pts | + compare |
| 15 | 🇿🇲 Zambia+ compare | 9.48% ↓ 0.81 pts from previous figure | 2020 | ↓ 0.81 pts | + compare |
| 16 | 🇸🇨 Seychelles+ compare | 9.85% ↑ 0.04 pts from previous figure | 2025 | ↑ 0.04 pts | + compare |
| 17 | 🇿🇦 South Africa+ compare | 10.69% ↓ 0.94 pts from previous figure | 2025 | ↓ 0.94 pts | + compare |
| 18 | 🇸🇿 Eswatini+ compare | 10.88% ↑ 0.04 pts from previous figure | 2024 | ↑ 0.04 pts | + compare |
| 19 | 🇳🇦 Namibia+ compare | 10.96% ↑ 0.03 pts from previous figure | 2024 | ↑ 0.03 pts | + compare |
| 20 | 🇱🇸 Lesotho+ compare | 11.21% ↑ 0.12 pts from previous figure | 2024 | ↑ 0.12 pts | + compare |
| 21 | 🇧🇮 Burundi+ compare | 12.37% ↑ 0.52 pts from previous figure | 2025 | ↑ 0.52 pts | + compare |
| 22 | 🇱🇷 Liberia+ compare | 13.25% ↓ 0.34 pts from previous figure | 2017 | ↓ 0.34 pts | + compare |
| 23 | 🇳🇬 Nigeria+ compare | 14.01% ↑ 1.68 pts from previous figure | 2023 | ↑ 1.68 pts | + compare |
| 24 | 🇸🇸 South Sudan+ compare | 14.29% ↓ 0.39 pts from previous figure | 2025 | ↓ 0.39 pts | + compare |
| 25 | 🇷🇼 Rwanda+ compare | 16.02% ↓ 0.04 pts from previous figure | 2024 | ↓ 0.04 pts | + compare |
| 26 | 🇰🇪 Kenya+ compare | 16.59% ↑ 3 pts from previous figure | 2024 | ↑ 3 pts | + compare |
| 27 | 🇹🇿 Tanzania+ compare | 16.68% ↓ 0.29 pts from previous figure | 2020 | ↓ 0.29 pts | + compare |
| 28 | 🇲🇷 Mauritania+ compare | 17% → 0 from previous figure | 2017 | → 0 | + compare |
| 29 | 🇲🇿 Mozambique+ compare | 17.53% ↓ 4.19 pts from previous figure | 2025 | ↓ 4.19 pts | + compare |
| 30 | 🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe+ compare | 17.84% ↑ 0.02 pts from previous figure | 2024 | ↑ 0.02 pts | + compare |
| 31 | 🇦🇴 Angola+ compare | 19.37% ↓ 0.03 pts from previous figure | 2025 | ↓ 0.03 pts | + compare |
| 32 | 🇺🇬 Uganda+ compare | 19.85% ↓ 1.43 pts from previous figure | 2018 | ↓ 1.43 pts | + compare |
| 33 | 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone+ compare | 21.44% ↑ 0.86 pts from previous figure | 2025 | ↑ 0.86 pts | + compare |
| 34 | 🇬🇲 Gambia+ compare | 22% → 0 from previous figure | 2025 | → 0 | + compare |
| 35 | 🇨🇩 DR Congo+ compare | 23.29% ↓ 2.67 pts from previous figure | 2021 | ↓ 2.67 pts | + compare |
| 36 | 🇪🇬 Egypt+ compare | 24.29% ↑ 6.53 pts from previous figure | 2024 | ↑ 6.53 pts | + compare |
| 37 | 🇲🇼 Malawi+ compare | 37.06% ↑ 3.52 pts from previous figure | 2024 | ↑ 3.52 pts | + compare |
| 38 | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe+ compare | 46.36% ↓ 22.52 pts from previous figure | 2025 | ↓ 22.52 pts | + compare |
| 39 | 🇲🇬 Madagascar+ compare | 60% → 0 from previous figure | 2025 | → 0 | + compare |
| Median | 11.21% | median of shown |
Equal values are listed alphabetically and numbered in sequence. “—” in the change column means there is no earlier figure to compare with.
15 countries have no figure and are not ranked
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia
All rankings
Currencies & Rates
- Official exchange rate (local currency per US$, annual average)
- FX premium
- Policy rate
- 364-day T-bill
- 10-year bond auction
- Stock index 10-year return
- FX reserves (includes gold)
- Lending rate
- Deposit rate
Economy & Prices
- Inflation
- Food inflation
- Core inflation
- GDP (current US$)
- GDP growth
- GDP per capita (PPP)
- GDP per capita growth
- Unemployment (ILO modeled estimate)
- Investment rate
- Agriculture share of GDP
- Manufacturing share of GDP
- Services share of GDP
- Minimum wage (local currency)
Public Finance & Debt
Trade & Resources
- Imports of goods and services
- Trade balance
- Exports of goods and services
- Exports per capita
- Current account / GDP
- FDI inflows
- Remittances
- Terms of trade
- Crude oil production
- Proved crude reserves (billion bbl)
- International tourist arrivals