COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Liberia Real Interest Rate
Liberia real interest rate: latest available value for 2017, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
FR.INR.RINR| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 16,29 | 10,11 |
| 2016 | 6,19 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: An interest rate is the amount charged, expressed as a percentage of the principal over a period of time, by the owners of certain kinds of financial assets for putting the financial assets at the disposal of another institutional unit. The real interest rate is the lending interest rate adjusted for inflation as measured by the GDP deflator. The terms and conditions attached to lending 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); World Development Indicators, World Bank (WB)
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Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesLiberia recorded 16,29 percent in 2017, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2016, the real interest rate increased by 10,11.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 2 observations from 2016 to 2017, the average was 11,24; the minimum was 6,19 in 2016 and the maximum was 16,29 in 2017.
Liberia ranks 7 out of 134 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 Low income group.
Inflation-adjusted financing conditions.