Short-term interest rate (per cent) - People's Republic of China - OECD - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: OECD interest rates
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the People's Republic of China, the short-term interest rate was 1.54 per cent in July 2026, versus 1.51 in June 2026.
Sample. The monthly series presented in the figure has 349 records overall. The series covers the period extending from June 1997 to July 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: the interest rate hit a trough of 1.09 per cent in February 2009; it reached its maximum of 10.75 in June 1997; it was equal on average to 3.42.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Percentage points |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 1.51 |
| 2026-06-30 | 1.51 |
| 2026-07-31 | 1.54 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short-term interest rate |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| 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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