Angola - Risk premium on lending

Risk premium on lending (lending rate minus treasury bill rate, %)

The value for Risk premium on lending (lending rate minus treasury bill rate, %) in Angola was 0.04 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 17 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 36.09 in 2005 and a minimum value of -0.54 in 2017.

Definition: Risk premium on lending is the interest rate charged by banks on loans to private sector customers minus the "risk free" treasury bill interest rate at which short-term government securities are issued or traded in the market. In some countries this spread may be negative, indicating that the market considers its best corporate clients to be lower risk than the government. The terms and conditions attached to lending rates differ by country, however, limiting their comparability.

Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics database.

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Year Value
2004 30.16
2005 36.09
2006 11.65
2010 11.72
2011 11.83
2012 13.21
2013 12.74
2014 12.10
2015 9.68
2016 0.69
2017 -0.54
2018 7.55
2019 6.21
2020 3.16
2021 0.04

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Interest rates