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Sri Lanka: Central bank policy rate

Percent · 1954–2019 · 39 observations · cbrate

2019
15.0%percent
Change on 2018
0.0 pointsfrom 15.0%
Average, 2010–2019
15.0%10 years
Record high and low
16.0% (1999)low 2.50% (1954)

Central bank policy rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
201915.0
201815.0
201715.0
201615.0
201515.0
201415.0
201315.0
201215.0
201115.0
201015.0

Sources

  • Grimm1954–2019
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2002–2019

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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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