Mauritania - Interest rate spread

Interest rate spread (lending rate minus deposit rate, %)

The value for Interest rate spread (lending rate minus deposit rate, %) in Mauritania was 11.33 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 37 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.00 in 1999 and a minimum value of 4.83 in 1985.

Definition: Interest rate spread is the interest rate charged by banks on loans to private sector customers minus the interest 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.

Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files.

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Year Value
1980 6.50
1981 6.50
1982 6.50
1983 6.50
1984 6.50
1985 4.83
1986 5.42
1987 6.00
1988 6.00
1989 5.00
1990 5.00
1991 5.00
1992 8.32
1993 8.96
1994 9.17
1995 11.33
1996 13.00
1997 13.00
1998 16.50
1999 19.00
2000 16.17
2001 14.50
2002 13.00
2003 13.00
2004 13.00
2005 15.08
2006 16.00
2007 15.50
2008 12.33
2009 11.50
2010 9.00
2011 9.00
2012 12.98
2013 13.66
2014 12.53
2015 12.34
2016 11.67
2017 11.33

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Interest rates