Short-term interest rate (per cent) - Costa Rica - OECD - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: OECD interest rates
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In Costa Rica, the short-term interest rate was 3.20 per cent in August 2026, versus 3.25 in July.
Sample. In this monthly time series, there are 356 data points in total. The series covers the period extending from January 1997 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: the interest rate had a mean of 8.28 per cent; it attained a maximum of 18.52 in May 1999; it hit a trough of 1.80 in April 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Percentage points |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 3.14411 |
| 2026-07-31 | 3.24537 |
| 2026-08-31 | 3.19871 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short-term interest rate |
| Country | Costa Rica |
| Economic concept | Interest rate |
| Data type | Annual interest rate |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Percentage points |
| Source | OECD |
| Source type | International organization |
| Data licence | Redistributable with citation |
| Other information | Short-term interest rates are the rates at which short-term borrowings are effected between financial institutions or the rate at which short-term government paper is issued or traded in the market. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM1 |
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