Uganda - 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 Uganda was 10.04 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 26 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 15.16 in 2010 and a minimum value of -0.78 in 1992.

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
1992 -0.78
1994 8.24
1995 11.41
1996 8.59
1997 10.78
1998 13.09
1999 14.12
2000 9.73
2001 11.66
2002 13.24
2003 2.08
2004 11.59
2005 11.14
2006 10.58
2007 10.02
2008 11.37
2009 13.56
2010 15.16
2011 7.22
2012 10.45
2013 13.36
2014 11.36
2015 6.77
2016 8.00
2017 10.68
2018 10.04

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Interest rates