Romania Interest Rate
The monetary policy rate, the National Bank of Romania's main policy rate.
6.50%
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Aug 2005 to Oct 2026
Source: BIS central bank policy rates (WS_CBPOL, M.RO, extended with the daily series D.RO) · NBR monetary policy rate, end of month, from August 2005; the current month shows the latest rate.
Romania Interest Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Romania, the interest rate was unchanged over the year to Oct 2026, from 6.50% in Oct 2025.
It is the highest reading since Jul 2024.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.50% in Oct 2021 to 7.00% in Jan 2023.
Its average since Aug 2005 is 5.07%, and the latest reading is above that.
Romania is 1st of 24 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.RO, extended with the daily series D.RO)
- 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
Shown from August 2005, when the NBR adopted inflation targeting.
Data refreshed 2026-10-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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