Sierra Leone - Risk premium on lending
Risk premium on lending (prime rate minus treasury bill rate, %)
The value for Risk premium on lending (prime rate minus treasury bill rate, %) in Sierra Leone was 4.04 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 44 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.82 in 1993 and a minimum value of -15.80 in 1992.
Definition: Risk premium on lending is the interest rate charged by banks on loans to prime 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.
Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics database.
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| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 1966 | 2.50 |
| 1967 | 2.42 |
| 1968 | 2.00 |
| 1969 | 2.50 |
| 1970 | 2.50 |
| 1971 | 2.50 |
| 1972 | 2.50 |
| 1973 | 2.50 |
| 1974 | 2.50 |
| 1975 | 3.00 |
| 1976 | 3.50 |
| 1977 | 5.50 |
| 1978 | 5.50 |
| 1979 | 4.75 |
| 1980 | 1.63 |
| 1981 | 5.00 |
| 1982 | 5.00 |
| 1983 | 6.25 |
| 1984 | 6.00 |
| 1985 | 5.00 |
| 1986 | 2.69 |
| 1987 | 12.04 |
| 1988 | 10.00 |
| 1989 | 7.67 |
| 1990 | 5.00 |
| 1991 | 5.58 |
| 1992 | -15.80 |
| 1993 | 21.82 |
| 1994 | 15.15 |
| 1995 | 14.11 |
| 1996 | 2.87 |
| 1997 | 11.16 |
| 1998 | 1.73 |
| 1999 | -5.59 |
| 2000 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 10.53 |
| 2002 | 7.02 |
| 2003 | 4.32 |
| 2004 | -4.06 |
| 2005 | 1.61 |
| 2006 | 6.29 |
| 2007 | 6.59 |
| 2008 | 9.02 |
| 2009 | 11.70 |
| 2010 | 4.04 |
Classification
Topic: Financial Sector Indicators
Sub-Topic: Interest rates
