Hong Kong Interest Rate
The base rate, the rate at which the Hong Kong Monetary Authority lends to banks overnight.
4.25%
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Oct 1998 to Oct 2026
Source: BIS central bank policy rates (WS_CBPOL, M.HK, extended with the daily series D.HK) · the Hong Kong Monetary Authority's base rate, end of month, from October 1998; the current month shows the latest rate.
Hong Kong Interest Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Hong Kong, the interest rate was unchanged over the year to Oct 2026, from 4.25% in Oct 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 0.50% in Oct 2021 to 5.75% in Jul 2023.
Its average since Oct 1998 is 2.98%, and the latest reading is above that.
Hong Kong is 7th of 40 countries in our Interest Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- BIS central bank policy rates (WS_CBPOL, M.HK, extended with the daily series D.HK)
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, interest rates are not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Oct 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Under the link to the US dollar it follows the US federal funds rate.
Data refreshed 2026-10-16. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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