COUNTRY / INDICATOR

Lesotho Deposit Interest Rate

Lesotho deposit interest rate: latest available value for 2024, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.

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Series overview

FR.INR.DPST

COUNTRY: LesothoINDICATOR: FR.INR.DPSTUNIT: percentSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-09-28 23:55:18REVISIONS: 26ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

2,46Latest / 2024

0,02Change from previous

1,72Series average

94Global rank / 152

Lesotho / Deposit Interest Rate Unit: Percent (%)

Selected year: 20242,46%

201620242024

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Year	Value	Change
2024	2,46	0,02
2023	2,44	0,78
2022	1,65	-0,01
2021	1,66	-0,25
2020	1,91	0,26
2019	1,65	0,26
2018	1,39	0,18
2017	1,22	0,11
2016	1,11	—

Source methodology

World Development Indicators

Indicator note: Deposit interest rate is the 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. This indicator is expressed as a percentage (a÷b)*100.

Source organization: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Metadata fetched: 2026-09-27 03:49:51. Open original metadata response.

Revision history

26 detected changes

Source revisions are retained before the current observation is replaced. This table documents the previous and replacement value for reproducibility.

Detected	Data year	Previous value	Replacement value	Source	Source update
2026-09-28 21:55:18	2019	1,65	1,65	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 21:55:18	2020	1,91	1,91	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 21:55:18	2021	1,66	1,66	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 21:55:18	2022	1,65	1,65	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 21:55:18	2023	2,44	2,44	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 21:55:18	2024	2,46	2,46	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 15:38:57	2016	1,11	1,11	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 15:38:57	2018	1,39	1,39	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 15:38:57	2019	1,65	1,65	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 15:38:57	2020	1,91	1,91	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 15:38:57	2021	1,66	1,66	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 15:38:57	2022	1,65	1,65	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 15:38:57	2023	2,44	2,44	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 15:38:57	2024	2,46	2,46	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 00:12:29	2019	1,65	1,65	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 00:12:29	2020	1,91	1,91	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 00:12:29	2021	1,66	1,66	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 00:12:29	2022	1,65	1,65	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 00:12:29	2023	2,44	2,44	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 00:12:29	2024	2,46	2,46	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 07:18:18	2019	1,65	1,65	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 07:18:18	2020	1,91	1,91	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 07:18:18	2021	1,66	1,66	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 07:18:18	2022	1,65	1,65	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 07:18:18	2023	2,44	2,44	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 07:18:18	2024	2,46	2,46	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Lesotho recorded 2,46 percent in 2024, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2023, the deposit interest rate increased by 0,02.

Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.

Across 9 observations from 2016 to 2024, the average was 1,72; the minimum was 1,11 in 2016 and the maximum was 2,46 in 2024.

Lesotho ranks 94 out of 152 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is below the available average for Sub-Saharan Africa.

It is also below the available average for the Lower middle income group.

Return on bank deposits.

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