Brazil vs Madagascar: Lending interest rate

Brazil
45.3%
in 2025
Madagascar
60.0%
in 2025
Brazil rank
4th
Madagascar rank
1st

Lending interest rate over time

  • Brazil
  • Madagascar
20406080198920072025

How they compare

Madagascar currently reports 60.0% against 45.3% in Brazil, a difference of 14.7%.

That makes Madagascar's figure about 1.3 times Brazil's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 29 shared years of data; in 1997 it was Brazil ahead.

Globally, Brazil ranks 4th and Madagascar ranks 1st of 148 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Lending interest rate (%)
Unit
%
Source
International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
148 places, 4,788 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed

Lending rate is the bank rate that usually meets the short- and medium-term financing needs of the private sector. This rate is normally differentiated according to creditworthiness of borrowers and objectives of financing. The terms and conditions attached to these rates differ by country, however, limiting their comparability.