Burundi vs Zambia: Real interest rate

Burundi
-4.9%
in 2025
Zambia
-3.9%
in 2020
Burundi rank
138th
Zambia rank
137th

Real interest rate over time

  • Burundi
  • Zambia
-40-20020197820012025

How they compare

Zambia currently reports -3.9% against -4.9% in Burundi, a difference of 1.1%.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 41 shared years of data; in 1978 it was Burundi ahead.

Globally, Burundi ranks 138th and Zambia ranks 137th 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.