Saudi Arabia Interest Rate
The repo rate, the Saudi Central Bank's main policy rate.
4.50%
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Jan 2000 to Sep 2026
Source: BIS central bank policy rates (WS_CBPOL, M.SA, extended with the daily series D.SA) · SAMA repo rate, end of month, from January 2000 (the start of BIS's official repo-rate series); the current month shows the latest rate.
Saudi Arabia Interest Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Saudi Arabia, the interest rate fell by 0.25pp over the year to Sep 2026, from 4.75% in Sep 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 1.00% in Sep 2021 to 6.00% in Jul 2023.
Its average since Jan 2000 is 3.14%, and the latest reading is above that.
Saudi Arabia is 3rd 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.SA, extended with the daily series D.SA)
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Sep 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
With the riyal pegged to the US dollar, SAMA moves it in step with the US Federal Reserve rather than setting it for domestic conditions.
Data refreshed 2026-10-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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