Madagascar - 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 Madagascar was 42.59 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 21 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 52.31 in 2013 and a minimum value of 6.99 in 2006.

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
2000 12.43
2001 15.22
2002 15.11
2003 12.32
2004 11.61
2005 7.03
2006 6.99
2007 28.44
2008 35.19
2009 37.00
2010 36.67
2011 42.92
2012 49.20
2013 52.31
2014 51.57
2015 47.76
2016 51.62
2017 51.26
2018 47.76
2019 42.37
2020 41.96
2021 42.59

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Interest rates