List of countries by commercial bank prime lending rate

This is a list of countries by a simple average of annualized interest rates of commercial banks for charging on new loans, denominated in the national currency, to their most credit-worthy customers. The data is taken from CIA World Factbook ^[1]

Country	Commercial bank prime leading rate	Date of information
Madagascar	60.00	31 December 2015 est.
Malawi	44.90	31 December 2015 est.
Brazil	43.96	31 December 2015 est.
Gambia, The	30.00	31 December 2015 est.
Ghana	28.60	31 December 2015 est.
Syria	27.00	31 December 2015 est.
Tajikistan	25.84	31 December 2015 est.
Sao Tome and Principe	25.50	31 December 2014 est.
Yemen	25.00	31 December 2015 est.
Argentina	24.92	31 December 2015 est.
Kyrgyzstan	24.20	31 December 2015 est.
Guinea	23.00	31 December 2015 est.
Uganda	22.60	31 December 2015 est.
Ukraine	21.82	31 December 2015 est.
Honduras	20.66	31 December 2015 est.
Paraguay	19.74	31 December 2015 est.
Mongolia	19.56	31 December 2015 est.
Venezuela	19.40	31 December 2015 est.
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	19.37	31 December 2015 est.
Sierra Leone	18.78	31 December 2015 est.
Laos	18.20	31 December 2015 est.
Belarus	18.08	31 December 2015 est.
Zimbabwe	18.00	31 December 2015 est.
Armenia	17.59	31 December 2015 est.
Rwanda	17.33	31 December 2015 est.
Mauritania	17.00	31 December 2015 est.
Jamaica	16.98	31 December 2015 est.
Angola	16.88	31 December 2015 est.
Nigeria	16.85	31 December 2015 est.
Tanzania	16.10	31 December 2015 est.
Peru	16.10	31 December 2015 est.
Kenya	16.09	31 December 2015 est.
Uruguay	15.84	31 December 2015 est.
Russia	15.73	31 December 2015 est.
Chad	15.50	31 December 2015 est.
Central African Republic	15.50	31 December 2015 est.
Gabon	15.30	31 December 2015 est.
Afghanistan	15.00	31 December 2015 est.
Guinea-Bissau	15.00	31 December 2015 est.
Dominican Republic	14.88	31 December 2015 est.
Mozambique	14.87	31 December 2015 est.
Burundi	15.00	31 December 2014 est.
Congo, Republic of the	14.80	31 December 2015 est.
Senegal	14.30	31 December 2015 est.
Micronesia, Federated States of	14.35	31 December 2014 est.
Costa Rica	14.24	31 December 2015 est.
Iran	14.20	31 December 2015 est.
Moldova	14.20	31 December 2015 est.
Equatorial Guinea	14.00	31 December 2015 est.
Azerbaijan	13.86	31 December 2015 est.
Bhutan	13.75	31 December 2014 est.
Turkey	13.66	31 December 2015 est.
Liberia	13.61	31 December 2015 est.
Timor-Leste	13.50	31 December 2015 est.
Zambia	13.25	31 December 2014 est.
Guatemala	13.23	31 December 2015 est.
Burma	13.00	31 December 2015 est.
Cameroon	13.00	31 December 2015 est.
Haiti	12.90	31 December 2015 est.
Guyana	12.83	31 December 2015 est.
Kosovo	12.80	31 June 2013 est.
Indonesia	12.66	31 December 2015 est.
Suriname	12.62	31 December 2015 est.
Georgia	12.49	31 December 2015 est.
Uzbekistan	12.44	31 December 2013 est.
Seychelles	12.36	31 December 2015 est.
Nicaragua	12.05	31 December 2015 est.
Bangladesh	11.71	31 December 2015 est.
Cambodia	11.71	31 December 2015 est.
Egypt	11.63	31 December 2015 est.
Djibouti	11.62	31 December 2015 est.
Sri Lanka	11.50	31 December 2014 est.
Ethiopia	11.50	31 December 2015 est.
Colombia	11.45	31 December 2015 est.
Serbia	11.00	31 December 2015 est.
Tuvalu	10.60	31 December 2015 est.
Lesotho	10.59	31 December 2015 est.
Comoros	10.50	31 December 2015 est.
Maldives	10.50	31 December 2012 est.
Solomon Islands	10.48	31 December 2015 est.
Cabo Verde	10.41	31 December 2015 est.
Belize	10.32	31 December 2015 est.
India	10.01	31 December 2015 est.
Antigua and Barbuda	9.80	31 December 2015 est.
Nepal	9.80	31 December 2015 est.
Bolivia	9.70	31 December 2014 est.
Kazakhstan	9.56	31 December 2015 est.
Vietnam	9.50	31 December 2014 est.
South Africa	9.42	31 December 2015 est.
Spain	9.40	31 December 2014 est.
Tonga	9.40	31 December 2014 est.
Samoa	9.39	31 December 2015 est.
Mali	9.30	31 December 2015 est.
Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.30	31 December 2015 est.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9.30	31 December 2015 est.
Montenegro	9.22	31 December 2014 est.
Anguilla	9.10	31 December 2015 est.
Swaziland	9.04	31 December 2015 est.
Namibia	9.00	31 December 2014 est.
Botswana	9.00	31 December 2014 est.
Grenada	8.96	31 December 2015 est.
Saint Lucia	8.86	31 December 2015 est.
Papua New Guinea	8.73	31 December 2015 est.
Albania	8.70	31 December 2015 est.
Dominica	8.70	31 December 2015 est.
Mauritius	8.50	31 December 2015 est.
Romania	8.50	31 December 2014 est.
Croatia	8.50	31 December 2014 est.
Bulgaria	8.40	31 December 2014 est.
Pakistan	8.37	31 December 2015 est.
Ecuador	8.33	31 December 2015 est.
Aruba	8.25	31 December 2015 est.
Jordan	8.24	31 December 2015 est.
Iceland	8.20	31 December 2014 est.
Macedonia	8.20	31 December 2014 est.
Barbados	8.10	31 December 2015 est.
Chile	8.10	31 December 2014 est.
Montserrat	9.00	31 December 2014 est.
Algeria	8.00	31 December 2014 est.
Trinidad and Tobago	7.80	31 December 2014 est.
Tunisia	7.31	31 December 2014 est.
Lebanon	7.20	31 December 2014 est.
West Bank	6.80	31 December 2015 est.
Thailand	6.80	31 December 2014 est.
Bahrain	6.80	31 December 2014 est.
Saudi Arabia	6.80	31 December 2014 est.
Panama	6.60	31 December 2014 est.
Greece	6.60	31 December 2014 est.
Poland	6.30	31 December 2014 est.
Cyprus	6.10	31 December 2014 est.
New Zealand	6.10	31 December 2014 est.
China	6.00	31 December 2014 est.
Latvia	6.00	31 December 2014 est.
Australia	6.00	31 December 2014 est.
Iraq	6.00	31 December 2014 est.
El Salvador	6.00	31 December 2014 est.
Morocco	6.00	31 December 2015 est.
San Marino	5.92	31 December 2014 est.
European Union	5.90	31 December 2014 est.
Philippines	5.90	31 December 2014 est.
Fiji	5.90	31 December 2014 est.
Bosnia and Herzegovina	5.79	31 December 2015 est.
Libya	5.60	31 December 2014 est.
Bahamas, The	5.50	31 December 2014 est.
Brunei	5.50	31 December 2014 est.
Portugal	5.50	31 December 2014 est.
Vanuatu	5.50	31 December 2014 est.
Singapore	5.40	31 December 2014 est.
Macau	5.30	31 December 2014 est.
Lithuania	5.30	31 December 2014 est.
Slovenia	5.20	31 December 2014 est.
Estonia	5.10	31 December 2014 est.
Italy	5.10	31 December 2014 est.
Hong Kong	5.00	31 December 2014 est.
Kuwait	5.00	31 December 2014 est.
Hungary	4.80	31 December 2014 est.
Oman	4.76	31 December 2015 est.
Czech Republic	4.70	31 December 2014 est.
Qatar	4.50	31 December 2014 est.
Korea, South	4.50	31 December 2014 est.
Malaysia	4.50	31 December 2014 est.
United Kingdom	4.40	31 December 2014 est.
Mexico	4.00	31 December 2014 est.
Malta	4.00	31 December 2014 est.
Denmark	3.90	31 December 2014 est.
Cote d'Ivoire	3.50	31 December 2014 est.
Niger	3.50	31 December 2014 est.
Belgium	3.50	31 December 2014 est.
United States	3.30	31 December 2014 est.
Ireland	3.30	31 December 2014 est.
Israel	3.30	31 December 2014 est.
Puerto Rico	3.30	31 December 2014 est.
Slovakia	3.20	31 December 2014 est.
Canada	3.00	31 December 2014 est.
Taiwan	2.90	31 December 2014 est.
Sweden	2.80	31 December 2014 est.
France	2.80	31 December 2014 est.
Switzerland	2.70	31 December 2014 est.
Germany	2.60	31 December 2014 est.
Norway	2.50	31 December 2014 est.
Netherlands	2.30	31 December 2014 est.
Austria	2.10	31 December 2014 est.
Finland	2.00	31 December 2014 est.
Japan	1.50	31 December 2014 est.

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