Short-term interest rate (per cent) - United States - OECD - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: OECD interest rates
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United States, the short-term interest rate stood at 3.82 per cent in August 2026, the same value recorded in July 2026.
Sample. This monthly time series has 746 records in total. The time period covered by the series goes from June 1964 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the interest rate had a mean value of 5.07 per cent; it reached a minimum of 0.09 in June 2021; it reached its highest level of 18.65 in December 1980.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Percentage points |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 3.77 |
| 2026-07-31 | 3.82 |
| 2026-08-31 | 3.82 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short-term interest rate |
| Country | United States |
| 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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