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Lending rate in Kuwait

What do banks charge for credit there?

Kuwait's lending rate is 5.03 % — #14 of 67 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

5.03%

Checked 21 Sept 2026Period 2025

Source: IMF International Financial Statistics

Lending rate in Kuwait over time

9.39 %6.55 %3.71 %9.39 % · 19823.71 % · 20211979: 5.86 %1980: 6.80 %1981: 9.28 %1982: 9.39 %1983: 8.35 %1984: 8.58 %1985: 8.75 %1986: 8.63 %1987: 7.86 %1988: 6.72 %1989: 8.38 %1990: 8.69 %1991: 8.61 %1992: 8.00 %1993: 7.95 %1994: 7.61 %1995: 8.37 %1996: 8.77 %1997: 8.80 %1998: 8.93 %1999: 8.56 %2000: 8.87 %2001: 7.88 %2002: 6.48 %2003: 5.42 %2004: 5.64 %2005: 7.50 %2006: 8.58 %2007: 8.54 %2008: 7.61 %2009: 6.16 %2010: 5.42 %2011: 5.19 %2012: 4.98 %2013: 4.56 %2014: 4.27 %2015: 4.29 %2016: 4.48 %2017: 4.69 %2018: 4.83 %2019: 4.81 %2020: 4.14 %2021: 3.71 %2022: 3.91 %2023: 4.93 %2024: 5.17 %2025: 5.03 %1979200220255.03 %
47 official observations, 1979 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#14 of 67
lower is better
Ranked behind
79 %
53 of 67 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.14 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
4.36 pp
peak 9.39 % in 1982
Full series
▼ 0.83 pp
since 1979

In Asia: #6 of 17vs median 8.79 %: −3.76 pp (better)

Among 67 countries

10 of 67 countries between 2.96 % and 4.75 %9 of 67 countries between 4.75 % and 6.55 %9 of 67 countries between 6.55 % and 8.34 %10 of 67 countries between 8.34 % and 10.14 %4 of 67 countries between 10.14 % and 11.93 %3 of 67 countries between 11.93 % and 13.73 %5 of 67 countries between 13.73 % and 15.52 %5 of 67 countries between 15.52 % and 17.31 %3 of 67 countries between 17.31 % and 19.11 %3 of 67 countries between 19.11 % and 20.90 %1 of 67 countries between 22.70 % and 24.49 %1 of 67 countries between 37.05 % and 38.84 %4 of 67 countries between 44.23 % and 46.02 %median 8.79 %Kuwait: ahead of 79 % of the 67 countries with a published lending rateKuwait 5.03 %2.96 %46.02 %
Half of all 67 countries sit between 5.88 % and 15.34 %. Kuwait is ahead of 79 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 3 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryLending ratevs Kuwait
12 Italy4.89 %−0.14 pp
13 Thailand4.99 %−0.04 pp
14 Kuwait5.03 %—
15 Hong Kong5.18 %+0.15 pp
16 Brunei5.50 %+0.47 pp

Bank lending rate, IMF-harmonised — the price of credit, ~150 economies.

How to read this figure

The IMF-harmonised bank lending rate — what banks charge their customers for credit, averaged nationally. Harmonisation is what makes ~150 economies comparable; the trade-off is that the underlying loan mix (business vs consumer, maturities) differs by country, so treat close values as similar, not identical.

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