Suriname's interest rate spread (lending rate minus deposit rate, %) was 7.81% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 2.73 percentage points from 5.08% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 7.81% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 6.86% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 5.08% | 2015 |
| Highest | 19.33% | 1995 |
| Lowest | 4.1% | 1990 |
| Average since 2016 | 6.26% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 4.1% | 1990 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Suriname's interest rate spread (lending rate minus deposit rate, %) rose 2.63 percentage points on 2024 (from 5.18% to 7.81%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.09 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.5 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.1 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 11.4 percentage points in 1995 and the biggest yearly fall was 4.68 percentage points in 1998. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 20% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Suriname had the 18th highest value of the 72 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.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Suriname | 7.81% | 2025 |
| World | 5.98% | 2019 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 6.07% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 5.82% | 2025 |
Closest to Suriname in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
Interest rate spread is the interest rate charged by banks on loans to private sector customers minus the interest rate paid by commercial or similar banks for demand, time, or savings deposits. The terms and conditions attached to these 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.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a median.
All 36 values
| Year | Interest rate spread (lending rate minus deposit rate, %) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.81 |
| 2024 | 5.18 |
| 2023 | 5.5 |
| 2022 | 7.45 |
| 2021 | 8.02 |
| 2020 | 6.86 |
| 2019 | 5.98 |
| 2018 | 5.06 |
| 2017 | 5.38 |
| 2016 | 5.41 |
| 2015 |
Interest rate spread (lending rate minus deposit rate, %) in nearby economies
- Antigua and Barbuda — 5.06% (2025)
- Argentina — 11.16% (2025)
- Aruba — 3% (2023)
- Bahamas, The — 3.66% (2025)
- Barbados — 7.91% (2022)
- Belize — 6.5% (2025)
- Bolivia — 6.27% (2025)
- Brazil — 32.52% (2024)
- Chile — 1.48% (2018)
More financial sector data for Suriname
- GDP deflator (base year varies by country) — 1,054 (2025)
- DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$) — US$37.26 (2025)
- Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) — US$37.26 (2025)
- Consumer price index (2010 = 100) — 1,855 (2025)
- Inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) — 12.99% (2025)
- Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) — 9.21% (2025)
- Domestic credit to private sector by banks (% of GDP) — 20.25% (2025)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU) — 50.22 billion (2025)
- Net foreign assets (current LCU) — 68.74 billion (2025)
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Questions people ask
- What is Suriname's interest rate spread (lending rate minus deposit rate, %)?
- 7.81% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1990?
- It is up 3.71 percentage points from 4.1% in 1990. The highest value was 19.33% in 1995 and the lowest 4.1% in 1990.
- How does Suriname rank?
- 18th highest of 72 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in interest rate spread (lending rate minus deposit rate, %) unusual for Suriname?
- In 2025, Suriname's interest rate spread (lending rate minus deposit rate, %) rose 2.63 percentage points on 2024 (from 5.18% to 7.81%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.09 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.5 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.1 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator FR.INR.LNDP, 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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