Bolivia's risk premium on lending (lending rate minus treasury bill rate, %) was 3% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 4.5 percentage points from 7.5% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 3% | 2025 |
| Ten years earlier | 7.5% | 2015 |
| Highest | 37.68% | 1994 |
| Lowest | 3% | 2025 |
| Average since 2016 | 6.53% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 37.68% | 1994 |
Since 1994 it is down 34.68 percentage points from 37.68% in 1994. The World Bank has no value for 6 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 9.53 percentage points in 1996 and the biggest yearly fall was 15.02 percentage points in 2001. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Bolivia had the 20th highest value of the 32 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
Closest to Bolivia in the 2025 ranking
- South Africa — 17th of 32: 3.51%
- Thailand — 18th of 32: 3.45%
- Iceland — 19th of 32: 3.14%
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 21st of 32: 2.73%
- Montenegro — 22nd of 32: 2.57%
- Nigeria — 23rd of 32: 1.89%
What this measures
Risk premium on lending is the interest rate charged by banks on loans to private sector customers minus the "risk free" treasury bill interest rate at which short-term government securities are issued or traded in the market. In some countries this spread may be negative, indicating that the market considers its best corporate clients to be lower risk than the government. The terms and conditions attached to lending rates differ by country, however, limiting their comparability.
Limitations: Countries use a variety of reporting formats, sample designs, interest compounding formulas, averaging methods, and data presentations for indices and other data series on interest rates. The IMF's Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual does not provide guidelines beyond the general recommendation that such data should reflect market prices and effective (rather than nominal) interest rates and should be representative of the financial assets and markets to be covered. For more information, please see http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/mfs/manual/index.htm.
All 26 values
| Year | Risk premium on lending (lending rate minus treasury bill rate, %) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 |
| 2024 | no data |
| 2023 | no data |
| 2022 | 7.63 |
| 2021 | no data |
| 2020 | no data |
| 2019 | no data |
| 2018 | no data |
| 2017 | 7.76 |
| 2016 | 7.73 |
| 2015 |
Risk premium on lending (lending rate minus treasury bill rate, %) in nearby economies
- Antigua and Barbuda — 7% (2018)
- Bahamas, The — 1.18% (2025)
- Barbados — 7.55% (2022)
- Belize — 7.88% (2025)
- Brazil — 30.76% (2025)
- Dominica — 5.96% (2018)
- Guyana — 7.14% (2025)
- Jamaica — 6.66% (2025)
- Mexico
More financial sector data for Bolivia
- Domestic credit to private sector by banks (% of GDP) — 51.75% (2025)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU) — 414.59 billion (2025)
- Net foreign assets (current LCU) — 25.97 billion (2025)
- Monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) — 51.75% (2025)
- Broad money (current LCU) — 257.74 billion (2025)
- Broad money (% of GDP) — 57.59% (2025)
- Broad money to total reserves ratio — 64.32 (2025)
- Consumer price index (2010 = 100) — 197.72 (2025)
- Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) — 19.52% (2025)
- Claims on central government, etc. (% of GDP)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Bolivia's risk premium on lending (lending rate minus treasury bill rate, %)?
- 3% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1994?
- It is down 34.68 percentage points from 37.68% in 1994. The highest value was 37.68% in 1994 and the lowest 3% in 2025.
- How does Bolivia rank?
- 20th highest of 32 economies with data for 2025.
- Where does this data come from?
- The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator FR.INR.RISK, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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