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

The value for Risk premium on lending (lending rate minus treasury bill rate, %) in The Gambia was 16.10 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 36 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.86 in 2020 and a minimum value of 2.83 in 2003.

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
1985 3.98
1986 11.38
1987 8.17
1988 11.54
1989 9.08
1990 9.00
1991 8.04
1992 8.04
1993 8.67
1994 9.50
1995 9.42
1996 9.50
1997 9.50
1998 9.67
1999 10.38
2000 11.92
2001 10.92
2002 8.58
2003 2.83
2004 5.75
2005 12.42
2006 15.61
2007 14.46
2008 13.68
2009 12.67
2010 13.84
2011 16.19
2012 15.54
2017 18.28
2018 19.06
2019 19.49
2020 19.86
2021 16.10

Development Relevance: Both banking and financial systems enhance growth, the main factor in poverty reduction. At low levels of economic development commercial banks tend to dominate the financial system, while at higher levels domestic stock markets tend to become more active and efficient. The size and mobility of international capital flows make it increasingly important to monitor the strength of financial systems. Robust financial systems can increase economic activity and welfare, but instability can disrupt financial activity and impose widespread costs on the economy.

Limitations and Exceptions: Countries use a variety of reporting formats, sample designs, interest compounding formulas, averaging methods, and data presentations for indices and other data series on interest rates. The IMF's Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual does not provide guidelines beyond the general recommendation that such data should reflect market prices and effective (rather than nominal) interest rates and should be representative of the financial assets and markets to be covered. For more information, please see http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/mfs/manual/index.htm.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The risk premium on lending is the spread between the lending rate to the private sector and the "risk-free" government rate. Spreads are expressed as an annual average. A small spread indicates that the market considers its best corporate customers to be low risk; a negative value indicates that the market considers its best corporate clients to be lower risk than the government.

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Interest rates