Real interest rate reached 16.0 % in 2016 in Sierra Leone, according to the National Statistical Office. This is 459 % more than in the previous year.
Historically, real interest rate in Sierra Leone reached an all time high of 27.1 % in 2002 and an all time low of -51.6 % in 1987. When compared to Sierra Leone's main peers, real interest rate in Burkina Faso amounted to 6.48 %, 8.33 % in Liberia and 3.88 % in Mali in 2016.
Sierra Leone has been ranked 14th within the group of 133 countries we follow in terms of real interest rate, 5 places above the position seen 10 years ago.
The net foreign assets of a country are the value of the assets that country owns abroad, minus the value of the domestic assets owned by foreigners.
| Real Interest Rate | Unit | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Algeria | % | -8.66% | 0.483% | 8.07% | 8.31% | 15.5% | ||||
| Burkina Faso | % | -1.36% | -0.742% | 7.58% | 6.00% | 8.49% | ||||
| Ghana | % | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Guinea | % | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Ivory Coast | % | 3.56% | 1.83% | 1.52% | 1.38% | 1.99% | ||||
| Liberia | % | 2.55% | 8.04% | 9.45% | 11.5% | 12.4% | ... | |||
| Mali | % | -6.15% | 0.415% | 4.55% | 4.04% | 2.01% | ||||
| Mauritania | % | 0.946% | 15.9% | 13.6% | 28.8% | 23.0% | ||||
| Niger | % | 0.826% | 0.251% | 3.69% | 5.46% | 4.58% | ||||
| Senegal | % | 1.66% | 2.36% | 5.18% | 7.62% | 4.04% | ||||
| Sierra Leone | % | 3.09% | 8.00% | 12.8% | 17.3% | -0.113% |
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