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Sri Lanka: Short-term interest rate

Percent · 1981–2019 · 35 observations · strate

2019
9.09%percent
Change on 2018
−0.7 pointsfrom 9.78%
Average, 2010–2019
9.09%10 years
Record high and low
18.9% (2008)low 6.60% (2014)

Short-term interest rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20199.09
20189.78
201710.1
201610.00
20156.65
20146.60
201310.5
201212.1
20117.63
20108.57

Sources

  • Bordo1981–1996
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2001–2019
  • Asian Development Bank2001–2019
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2001–2019

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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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