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Italy: Short-term interest rate

Percent · 1862–2025 · 164 observations · forecasts to 2026 · strate

2025
2.18%percent
Change on 2024
−1.4 pointsfrom 3.59%
Average, 2016–2025
0.91%10 years
Record high and low
19.7% (1981)low −0.488% (2021)

Short-term interest rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20262.06Forecast
20252.18
20243.59
20233.59
20220.878
2021-0.488
2020-0.205
2019-0.0573
20180.12
2017-0.336
2016-0.168

Sources

  • Piselli & Vercelli1862–2016
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
  • Ellison, Lee & O'Rourke1925–1936
  • OECD Main Economic Indicators (archive)1955–1984
  • AMECO (European Commission)1960–2025
  • Bordo1969–1997
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1971–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1971–2025
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators1979–2025
  • AMECO (forecast)2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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