List of countries by commercial bank prime lending rate

Last updated July 18, 2022

This is a list of countries by a simple average of commercial banks' annualized interest rates charged on new loans to their most credit-worthy customers. Each entry is denominated in the respective national currency.^[1]

List

Rank	Country	Commercial bank prime lending rate	Date of information
1	Madagascar	64.00	31 December 2017 est.
2	Brazil	63.30	31 December 2017 est.
3	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	35.90	31 December 2017 est.
4	Syria	33.30	31 December 2017 est.
5	Gambia, The	30.60	31 December 2017 est.
6	Tajikistan	30.00	31 December 2017 est.
7	Ghana
8	Mozambique	27.00	31 December 2017 est.
9	Malawi	26.90	31 December 2017 est.
10	Yemen	26.00	31 December 2017 est.
11	Argentina	24.50	31 December 2017 est.
12	Venezuela	23.80	31 December 2017 est.
13	Guinea	21.50	31 December 2017 est.
14	Suriname	20.50	31 December 2017 est.
15	Uganda	20.28	December 2017 est.
16	Kyrgyzstan	20.10	31 December 2017 est.
17	Angola	20.00	31 December 2017 est.
18	Mongolia	19.90	31 December 2017 est.
19	Honduras	19.70	31 December 2017 est.
20	Egypt	19.50	31 December 2017 est.
21	Sao Tome and Principe	18.90	31 December 2017 est.
22	Sierra Leone	18.60	31 December 2017 est.
23	Laos	18.50	31 December 2017 est.
24	Paraguay	18.50	31 December 2017 est.
25	Iran	18.00	31 December 2017 est.
26	Zimbabwe	18.00	31 December 2017 est.
27	Nigeria	17.50	31 December 2017 est.
28	Kenya	17.00	31 December 2017 est.
29	Mauritania	17.00	31 December 2017 est.
30	Rwanda	16.90	31 December 2017 est.
31	Peru	16.50	31 December 2017 est.
32	Ukraine	16.50	31 December 2017 est.
33	Senegal	16.30	31 December 2017 est.
34	Uzbekistan	16.00	31 December 2016 est.
35	Armenia	16.00	31 December 2017 est.
36	Burundi	15.90	31 December 2017 est.
37	Micronesia, Federated States of	15.70	31 December 2017 est.
38	Central African Republic	15.50	31 December 2017 est.
39	Chad	15.50	31 December 2017 est.
40	Gabon	15.50	31 December 2017 est.
41	Zambia	15.50	31 December 2017 est.
42	Liberia	15.20	31 December 2017 est.
43	Turkey	15.20	31 December 2017 est.
44	Guinea-Bissau	15.00	31 December 2017 est.
45	Tanzania	15.00	31 December 2017 est.
46	Afghanistan	15.00	31 December 2016 est.
47	Jamaica	14.91	31 December 2017
48	Timor-Leste	14.90	31 December 2017 est.
49	Dominican Republic	8.30	30 June 2021 est.
50	Curacao	14.50	31 December 2011 est.
51	Kazakhstan	14.10	31 December 2017 est.
52	Haiti	14.00	31 December 2017 est.
53	Congo, Republic of the	14.00	31 December 2017 est.
54	Belarus	14.00	31 December 2017 est.
55	Burma	14.00	31 December 2017 est.
56	Equatorial Guinea	14.00	31 December 2017 est.
57	Colombia	13.80	31 December 2017 est.
58	Bhutan	13.60	31 December 2017 est.
59	Uruguay	13.60	31 December 2017 est.
60	Guatemala	13.50	31 December 2017 est.
61	South Sudan	13.38	December 2017
62	Guyana	13.30	31 December 2017 est.
63	Cameroon	13.00	31 December 2017 est.
64	Ethiopia	13.00	31 December 2017 est.
65	Azerbaijan	12.40	31 December 2017 est.
66	Seychelles	12.40	31 December 2017 est.
67	Nicaragua	12.20	31 December 2017 est.
68	Lesotho	12.00	31 December 2017 est.
69	Sri Lanka	11.80	31 December 2017 est.
70	Costa Rica	11.80	31 December 2017 est.
71	Indonesia	11.70	31 December 2017 est.
72	Eswatini	11.70	31 December 2017 est.
73	Djibouti	11.60	31 December 2017 est.
74	Georgia	11.50	31 December 2017 est.
75	Cambodia	11.10	31 December 2017 est.
76	Tuvalu	10.60	31 December 2013 est.
77	Maldives	10.50	31 December 2012 est.
78	Comoros	10.50	31 December 2017 est.
79	South Africa	8.75	31 December 2017 est.
80	Moldova	10.30	31 December 2017 est.
81	Russia	10.30	31 December 2017 est.
82	Bangladesh	10.20	31 December 2017 est.
83	Solomon Islands	10.20	31 December 2017 est.
84	Cabo Verde	10.00	31 December 2017 est.
85	Bolivia	9.90	31 December 2017 est.
86	Namibia	9.90	31 December 2017 est.
87	Belize	9.60	31 December 2017 est.
88	Antigua and Barbuda	9.60	31 December 2017 est.
89	India	6.70	30 August 2021 est.
90	Anguilla	9.10	31 December 2017 est.
91	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.10	31 December 2017 est.
92	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9.00	31 December 2017 est.
93	Trinidad and Tobago	9.00	31 December 2017 est.
94	Nepal	9.00	31 December 2017 est.
95	Mali	9.00	31 December 2017 est.
96	Samoa	8.90	31 December 2017 est.
97	Jordan	8.80	31 December 2017 est.
98	Lebanon	8.60	31 December 2017 est.
99	Aruba	8.50	31 December 2017 est.
100	Grenada	8.50	31 December 2017 est.
101	Mauritius	8.50	31 December 2017 est.
102	Papua New Guinea	8.40	31 December 2017 est.
103	Saudi Arabia	8.30	31 December 2017 est.
104	Saint Lucia	8.30	31 December 2017 est.
105	Togo	8.29	31 December 2015 est.
106	Panama	8.20	31 December 2017 est.
107	Dominica	8.10	31 December 2017 est.
108	Barbados	8.10	31 December 2017 est.
109	Tonga	8.10	31 December 2017 est.
110	Algeria	8.00	31 December 2017 est.
111	Ecuador	7.75	31 December 2017 est.
112	Iceland	7.60	31 December 2017 est.
113	Serbia	7.60	31 December 2017 est.
114	Mexico	7.45	31 December 2017 est.
115	Tunisia	7.31	31 December 2016 est.
116	Libya	7.30	31 December 2017 est.
117	Albania	7.20	31 December 2017 est.
118	Pakistan	7.00	31 December 2017 est.
119	Montserrat	7.00	31 December 2017 est.
120	Kosovo	6.83	31 December 2017 est.
121	Montenegro	6.81	31 December 2017 est.
122	Vietnam	6.80	31 December 2017 est.
123	West Bank	6.70	31 December 2017 est.
124	Botswana	6.50	31 December 2017 est.
125	El Salvador	6.47	31 December 2017 est.
126	Macedonia	6.20	31 December 2017 est.
127	Thailand	6.20	31 December 2017 est.
128	Fiji	6.00	31 December 2017 est.
129	San Marino	5.92	31 December 2011 est.
130	Bulgaria	5.80	31 December 2017 est.
131	Bahrain	5.70	31 December 2017 est.
132	Romania	5.70	31 December 2017 est.
133	Morocco	5.70	31 December 2017 est.
134	Macau	5.50	31 December 2017 est.
135	Greece	5.50	31 December 2017 est.
136	Brunei	5.50	31 December 2017 est.
137	Oman	5.40	31 December 2017 est.
138	Cote d'Ivoire	5.40	31 December 2017 est.
139	Niger	5.40	31 December 2017 est.
140	Australia	5.30	31 December 2017 est.
141	Burkina Faso	5.30	31 December 2017 est.
142	Benin	5.30	31 December 2017 est.
143	Singapore	5.28	31 December 2017 est.
144	Kuwait	5.20	31 December 2017 est.
145	Qatar	5.00	31 December 2017 est.
146	Puerto Rico	5.00	31 December 2017 est.
147	Hong Kong	5.00	31 December 2017 est.
148	New Zealand	4.90	31 December 2017 est.
149	Poland	4.80	31 December 2017 est.
150	Latvia	4.60	31 December 2017 est.
151	Chile	4.60	31 December 2017 est.
152	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.50	31 December 2017 est.
153	Malaysia	5.40	6 August 2020^[2]
154	China	4.30	5 December 2017 est.
155	United States	3.25	24 November 2020^[3]
156	United Kingdom	4.30	31 December 2017 est.
157	Bahamas, The	4.30	31 December 2017 est.
158	Estonia	4.20	31 December 2017 est.
159	Cyprus	4.20	31 December 2017 est.
160	Philippines	4.19	31 December 2017 est.
161	Iraq	4.00	31 December 2017 est.
162	Croatia	3.91	31 December 2017 est.
163	Czechia	3.90	31 December 2017 est.
164	Ireland	3.80	31 December 2017 est.
165	Vanuatu	3.70	31 December 2017 est.
166	Portugal	3.50	31 December 2017 est.
167	Korea, South	3.40	31 December 2017 est.
168	Israel	3.30	31 December 2017 est.
169	Italy	3.30	31 December 2017 est.
170	Malta	3.00	31 December 2017 est.
171	Denmark	2.90	31 December 2017 est.
172	Canada	2.45	24 November 2020^[4]
173	Slovenia	2.90	31 December 2017 est.
174	Lithuania	2.90	31 December 2017 est.
175	Taiwan	2.70	31 December 2017 est.
176	Switzerland	2.60	31 December 2017 est.
177	Slovakia	2.60	31 December 2017 est.
178	Spain	2.20	31 December 2017 est.
179	Sweden	2.00	31 December 2017 est.
180	Belgium	2.00	31 December 2017 est.
181	Germany	1.80	31 December 2017 est.
182	Austria	1.70	31 December 2017 est.
183	Finland	1.60	31 December 2017 est.
184	Hungary	1.60	31 December 2017 est.
185	Netherlands	1.50	31 December 2017 est.
186	Norway	1.50	31 December 2017 est.
187	Japan	1.48	24 November 2020^[3]
188	France	1.40	31 December 2017 est.

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[1] "CIA – The World Factbook -- Rank Order – Commercial bank prime lending rate". Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008.

[2] "Base Rates, Base Lending/Financing Rates and Indicative Effective Lending Rates". Bank Negara Malaysia—Central Bank of Malaysia (List of rates for all Malaysian commercial banks, rate of largest bank, Malayan Banking Berhad, used for table). 6 August 2020. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

[:0-3] 1 2 "Money Rates". The Wall Street Journal . 24 November 2020. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

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