Interest rates

Every African central bank sets one number that quietly decides the price of everything else: the policy interest rate — the rate at which it lends to commercial banks, and the anchor for what businesses pay to borrow, what savers earn, and whether a currency yields enough to be worth holding. This page tracks that number across all 54 African countries, taken directly from central bank publications and sorted from the highest cost of money to the lowest. Where a central bank publishes no usable figure, we show the gap rather than guess. Every rate is verified weekly against its source, and every change is recorded — so over time this page becomes not just a snapshot of Africa's price of money, but its history.