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Sao Tome and Principe Lending Interest Rate

Sao Tome and Principe lending interest rate: latest available value for 2024, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.

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Series overview

FR.INR.LEND

COUNTRY: Sao Tome and PrincipeINDICATOR: FR.INR.LENDUNIT: percentSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-09-30 00:35:36REVISIONS: 32ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

17,84Latest / 2024

0,02Change from previous

18,78Series average

127Global rank / 148

Sao Tome and Principe / Lending Interest Rate Unit: Percent (%)

Selected year: 202417,84%

201620242024

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Year	Value	Change
2024	17,84	0,02
2023	17,81	-0,09
2022	17,90	-0,58
2021	18,49	-0,34
2020	18,83	-0,23
2019	19,06	-0,81
2018	19,87	0,26
2017	19,61	0,03
2016	19,59	—

Source methodology

World Development Indicators

Indicator note: Lending rate is the bank rate that usually meets the short- and medium-term financing needs of the private sector. This rate is normally differentiated according to creditworthiness of borrowers and objectives of financing. The terms and conditions attached to these rates differ by country, however, limiting their comparability.

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

Metadata fetched: 2026-09-27 04:54:24. Open original metadata response.

Revision history

32 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
2026-09-29 22:35:36	2019	19,06	19,06	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-29 22:35:36	2020	18,83	18,83	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-29 22:35:36	2021	18,49	18,49	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-29 22:35:36	2022	17,90	17,90	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-29 22:35:36	2023	17,81	17,81	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-29 22:35:36	2024	17,84	17,84	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-07 06:38:08	2019	19,06	19,06	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-07 06:38:08	2020	18,83	18,83	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-07 06:38:08	2021	18,49	18,49	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-07 06:38:08	2022	17,90	17,90	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-07 06:38:08	2023	17,81	17,81	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-07 06:38:08	2024	17,84	17,84	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-07 13:52:25	2019	19,06	19,06	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-07 13:52:25	2020	18,83	18,83	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-07 13:52:25	2021	18,49	18,49	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-07 13:52:25	2022	17,90	17,90	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-07 13:52:25	2023	17,81	17,81	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-07 13:52:25	2024	17,84	17,84	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:54:18	2019	19,06	19,06	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:54:18	2020	18,83	18,83	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:54:18	2021	18,49	18,49	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:54:18	2022	17,90	17,90	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:54:18	2023	17,81	17,81	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 03:54:18	2024	17,84	17,84	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-02 07:34:41	2017	19,61	19,61	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-02 07:34:41	2018	19,87	19,87	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-02 07:34:41	2019	19,06	19,06	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-02 07:34:41	2020	18,83	18,83	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-02 07:34:41	2021	18,49	18,49	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-02 07:34:41	2022	17,90	17,90	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-02 07:34:41	2023	17,81	17,81	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-02 07:34:41	2024	17,84	17,84	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Sao Tome and Principe recorded 17,84 percent in 2024, the latest year available in this series.

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

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

Across 9 observations from 2016 to 2024, the average was 18,78; the minimum was 17,81 in 2023 and the maximum was 19,87 in 2018.

Sao Tome and Principe ranks 127 out of 148 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

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

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

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