Mauritania - 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 Mauritania was 12.33 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 23 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 16.97 in 2012 and a minimum value of 8.50 in 2009.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1994 12.73
1995 13.54
1996 13.10
1997 11.55
1998 10.93
1999 12.60
2000 13.54
2001 12.77
2002 15.11
2003 15.99
2004 14.36
2005 12.50
2006 12.08
2007 12.11
2008 9.63
2009 8.50
2010 8.56
2011 16.94
2012 16.97
2013 14.41
2014 13.53
2015 13.34
2016 12.67
2017 12.33

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Interest rates