Botswana vs Tonga: Real interest rate

Botswana
4.2%
in 2024
Tonga
4.5%
in 2025
Botswana rank
81st
Tonga rank
78th

Real interest rate over time

  • Botswana
  • Tonga
-1001020198020022025

How they compare

Tonga currently reports 4.5% against 4.2% in Botswana, a difference of 0.2%.

That makes Tonga's figure about 1.1 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 13 shared years of data; in 2012 it was Botswana ahead.

Globally, Botswana ranks 81st and Tonga ranks 78th of 148 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Real interest rate (%)
Unit
%
Source
International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
148 places, 4,763 data points, 1961–2025
Last refreshed

An interest rate is the amount charged, expressed as a percentage of the principal over a period of time, by the owners of certain kinds of financial assets for putting the financial assets at the disposal of another institutional unit. The real interest rate is the lending interest rate adjusted for inflation as measured by the GDP deflator. The terms and conditions attached to lending rates differ by country, however, limiting their comparability. This indicator is expressed as a percentage (a÷b)*100.