Portugal Interest Rate
The European Central Bank's key interest rate, the anchor for borrowing costs across the euro area, including Portugal, which has no policy rate of its own.
2.50%
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Jan 1999 to Oct 2026
Source: FRED series ECBDFR · end-of-month value.
Portugal Interest Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Portugal, the interest rate rose by 0.50pp over the year to Oct 2026, from 2.00% in Oct 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −0.50% in Oct 2021 to 4.00% in Sep 2023.
Its average since Jan 1999 is 1.10%, and the latest reading is above that.
Portugal is 6th of 17 countries in our Interest Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- ECB via FRED
- Series
- ECBDFR
- 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
This is the deposit facility rate specifically, one of the ECB's three main policy rates.
Data refreshed 2026-10-07. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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