UK Interest Rate
The Bank of England's official Bank Rate, the anchor for most UK mortgage, loan and savings rates.
4.00%
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Jan 1975 to Nov 2026
Source: Bank of England · IUDBEDR, official Bank Rate.
UK Interest Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In the UK, the interest rate was unchanged over the year to Nov 2026, from 4.00% in Nov 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 0.10% in Nov 2021 to 5.25% in Aug 2023.
Its average since Jan 1975 is 6.10%, and the latest reading is below that.
The UK is 9th 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
- Bank of England
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, interest rates are not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Nov 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Set by the Monetary Policy Committee.
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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