Angola Interest Rate

Last Release

Jan 14, 2026

Actual

17.5

Units In

18.5

Frequency

Daily

Next Release

Mar 12, 2026

Time to Release

1 Months 24 Days 14 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
150 Jan 2002	8.75 Jul 2014	34.18 %	2002-2026	National Bank of Angola

In Angola, interest rate decisions are taken by The National Bank of Angola (Banco Nacional de Angola). On May 24th 2018, the central bank unified the marginal lending facility rate and the basic interest rate, creating the BNA Rate (Taxa BNA) which became the new benchmark interest rate. Until then, the key rate was the Taxa Básica de Juro (Taxa BNA) and until October 2011 the official interest rate was the Discount Rate (Taxa de Redesconto).

Latest Updates

The National Bank of Angola cut its key interest rate by 100bps to 17.5% in its first meeting of 2026, marking its third rate cut since coming off the terminal level of rate hikes at 19.5% through the start of September. It was the largest rate cut since 2023, justified by evidence of disinflation that allows the Angolan monetary authority to prioritize attending economic growth. The latest data showed that the inflation rate eased to 15.7% in December, the lowest in over two years. Room for more accommodative policy was also owed to less imbalanced flows of the kwanza, preventing the central bank from devaluing the currency.