List of countries by commercial bank prime lending rate

This is a list of countries by a simple average of commercial banks' annualized interest rates charged on new loans to their most credit-worthy customers. Each entry is denominated in the respective national currency.^[1]

Rank	Country	Commercial bank prime leading rate	Date of information
1	Madagascar	60.00	31 December 2015 est.
2	Malawi	44.90	31 December 2015 est.
3	Brazil	43.96	31 December 2015 est.
4	Gambia	30.00	31 December 2015 est.
5	Ghana	28.60	31 December 2015 est.
6	Syria	27.00	31 December 2015 est.
7	Tajikistan	25.84	31 December 2015 est.
8	Sao Tome and Principe	25.50	31 December 2014 est.
9	Yemen	25.00	31 December 2015 est.
10	Argentina	24.92	31 December 2015 est.
11	Kyrgyzstan	24.20	31 December 2015 est.
12	Guinea	23.00	31 December 2015 est.
13	Uganda	22.60	31 December 2015 est.
14	Ukraine	21.82	31 December 2015 est.
15	Honduras	20.66	31 December 2015 est.
16	Paraguay	19.74	31 December 2015 est.
17	Mongolia	19.56	31 December 2015 est.
18	Venezuela	19.40	31 December 2015 est.
19	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	19.37	31 December 2015 est.
20	Sierra Leone	18.78	31 December 2015 est.
21	Laos	18.20	31 December 2015 est.
22	Belarus	18.08	31 December 2015 est.
23	Zimbabwe	18.00	31 December 2015 est.
24	Armenia	17.59	31 December 2015 est.
25	Rwanda	17.33	31 December 2015 est.
26	Mauritania	17.00	31 December 2015 est.
27	Jamaica	16.98	31 December 2015 est.
28	Angola	16.88	31 December 2015 est.
29	Nigeria	28.50	31 July 2017 est.
30	Tanzania	16.10	31 December 2015 est.
31	Peru	16.10	31 December 2015 est.
32	Kenya	16.09	31 December 2015 est.
33	Uruguay	15.84	31 December 2015 est.
34	Russia	15.73	31 December 2015 est.
35	Chad	15.50	31 December 2015 est.
36	Central African Republic	15.50	31 December 2015 est.
37	Gabon	15.30	31 December 2015 est.
38	Afghanistan	15.00	31 December 2015 est.
39	Guinea-Bissau	15.00	31 December 2015 est.
40	Dominican Republic	14.88	31 December 2015 est.
41	Mozambique	14.87	31 December 2015 est.
42	Burundi	15.00	31 December 2014 est.
43	Congo, Republic of the	14.80	31 December 2015 est.
44	Senegal	14.30	31 December 2015 est.
45	Micronesia	14.35	31 December 2014 est.
46	Costa Rica	14.24	31 December 2015 est.
47	Iran	14.20	31 December 2015 est.
48	Moldova	14.20	31 December 2015 est.
49	Equatorial Guinea	14.00	31 December 2015 est.
50	Azerbaijan	13.86	31 December 2015 est.
51	Bhutan	13.75	31 December 2014 est.
52	Turkey	13.66	31 December 2015 est.
53	Liberia	13.61	31 December 2015 est.
54	Timor-Leste	13.50	31 December 2015 est.
55	Zambia	13.25	31 December 2014 est.
56	Guatemala	13.23	31 December 2015 est.
57	Myanmar	13.00	31 December 2015 est.
58	Cameroon	13.00	31 December 2015 est.
59	Haiti	12.90	31 December 2015 est.
60	Guyana	12.83	31 December 2015 est.
61	Kosovo	12.80	31 June 2013 est.
62	Indonesia	12.66	31 December 2015 est.
63	Suriname	12.62	31 December 2015 est.
64	Georgia	12.49	31 December 2015 est.
65	Uzbekistan	12.44	31 December 2013 est.
66	Seychelles	12.36	31 December 2015 est.
67	Nicaragua	12.05	31 December 2015 est.
68	Bangladesh	11.71	31 December 2015 est.
69	Cambodia	11.71	31 December 2015 est.
70	Egypt	11.63	31 December 2015 est.
71	Djibouti	11.62	31 December 2015 est.
72	Sri Lanka	11.50	31 December 2014 est.
73	Ethiopia	11.50	31 December 2015 est.
74	Colombia	11.45	31 December 2015 est.
75	Serbia	11.00	31 December 2015 est.
76	Tuvalu	10.60	31 December 2015 est.
77	Lesotho	10.59	31 December 2015 est.
78	Comoros	10.50	31 December 2015 est.
79	Maldives	10.50	31 December 2012 est.
80	Solomon Islands	10.48	31 December 2015 est.
81	Cabo Verde	10.41	31 December 2015 est.
82	Belize	10.32	31 December 2015 est.
83	India	10.01	31 December 2015 est.
84	Antigua and Barbuda	9.80	31 December 2015 est.
85	Nepal	9.80	31 December 2015 est.
86	Bolivia	9.70	31 December 2014 est.
87	Kazakhstan	9.56	31 December 2015 est.
88	Vietnam	9.50	31 December 2014 est.
89	South Africa	9.42	31 December 2015 est.
90	Spain	9.40	31 December 2014 est.
91	Tonga	9.40	31 December 2014 est.
92	Samoa	9.39	31 December 2015 est.
93	Mali	9.30	31 December 2015 est.
94	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.30	31 December 2015 est.
95	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9.30	31 December 2015 est.
96	Montenegro	9.22	31 December 2014 est.
97	Anguilla	9.10	31 December 2015 est.
98	Swaziland	9.04	31 December 2015 est.
99	Namibia	9.00	31 December 2014 est.
100	Botswana	9.00	31 December 2014 est.
101	Grenada	8.96	31 December 2015 est.
102	Saint Lucia	8.86	31 December 2015 est.
103	Papua New Guinea	8.73	31 December 2015 est.
104	Albania	8.70	31 December 2015 est.
105	Dominica	8.70	31 December 2015 est.
106	Mauritius	8.50	31 December 2015 est.
107	Romania	8.50	31 December 2014 est.
108	Croatia	8.50	31 December 2014 est.
109	Bulgaria	8.40	31 December 2014 est.
110	Pakistan	8.37	31 December 2015 est.
111	Ecuador	8.33	31 December 2015 est.
112	Aruba	8.25	31 December 2015 est.
113	Jordan	8.24	31 December 2015 est.
114	Iceland	8.20	31 December 2014 est.
115	Macedonia	8.20	31 December 2014 est.
116	Barbados	8.10	31 December 2015 est.
117	Chile	8.10	31 December 2014 est.
118	Montserrat	9.00	31 December 2014 est.
119	Algeria	8.00	31 December 2014 est.
120	Trinidad and Tobago	7.80	31 December 2014 est.
121	Tunisia	7.31	31 December 2014 est.
122	Lebanon	7.20	31 December 2014 est.
123	West Bank	6.80	31 December 2015 est.
124	Thailand	6.80	31 December 2014 est.
125	Bahrain	6.80	31 December 2014 est.
126	Saudi Arabia	6.80	31 December 2014 est.
127	Panama	6.60	31 December 2014 est.
128	Greece	6.60	31 December 2014 est.
129	Poland	6.30	31 December 2014 est.
130	Cyprus	6.10	31 December 2014 est.
131	New Zealand	6.10	31 December 2014 est.
132	China	6.00	31 December 2014 est.
133	Latvia	6.00	31 December 2014 est.
134	Australia	6.00	31 December 2014 est.
135	Iraq	6.00	31 December 2014 est.
136	El Salvador	6.00	31 December 2014 est.
137	Morocco	6.00	31 December 2015 est.
138	San Marino	5.92	31 December 2014 est.
139	European Union	5.90	31 December 2014 est.
140	Philippines	5.90	31 December 2014 est.
141	Fiji	5.90	31 December 2014 est.
142	Bosnia and Herzegovina	5.79	31 December 2015 est.
143	Libya	5.60	31 December 2014 est.
144	Bahamas	5.50	31 December 2014 est.
145	Brunei	5.50	31 December 2014 est.
146	Portugal	5.50	31 December 2014 est.
147	Vanuatu	5.50	31 December 2014 est.
148	Singapore	5.40	31 December 2014 est.
149	Macau	5.30	31 December 2014 est.
150	Lithuania	5.30	31 December 2014 est.
151	Slovenia	5.20	31 December 2014 est.
152	Estonia	5.10	31 December 2014 est.
153	Italy	5.10	31 December 2014 est.
154	Hong Kong	5.00	31 December 2014 est.
155	Kuwait	5.00	31 December 2014 est.
156	Hungary	4.80	31 December 2014 est.
157	Oman	4.76	31 December 2015 est.
158	Czech Republic	4.70	31 December 2014 est.
159	Qatar	4.50	31 December 2014 est.
160	Korea, South	4.50	31 December 2014 est.
161	Malaysia	4.50	31 December 2014 est.
162	United Kingdom	4.40	31 December 2014 est.
163	Mexico	4.00	31 December 2014 est.
164	Malta	4.00	31 December 2014 est.
165	Denmark	3.90	31 December 2014 est.
166	Cote d'Ivoire	3.50	31 December 2014 est.
167	Niger	3.50	31 December 2014 est.
168	Belgium	3.50	31 December 2014 est.
169	United States	3.30	31 December 2014 est.
170	Ireland	3.30	31 December 2014 est.
171	Israel	3.30	31 December 2014 est.
172	Puerto Rico	3.30	31 December 2014 est.
173	Slovakia	3.20	31 December 2014 est.
174	Canada	3.45	25 June 2018 est.
175	Taiwan	2.90	31 December 2014 est.
176	Sweden	2.80	31 December 2014 est.
177	France	2.80	31 December 2014 est.
178	Switzerland	2.70	31 December 2014 est.
179	Germany	2.60	31 December 2014 est.
180	Norway	2.50	31 December 2014 est.
181	Netherlands	2.30	31 December 2014 est.
182	Austria	2.10	31 December 2014 est.
183	Finland	2.00	31 December 2014 est.
184	Japan	1.50	31 December 2014 est.

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