Official data
South Africa: policy rate by year, 2000–2025
Central bank policy rate at year-end, %
Latest year, 2025: 6.75%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare central bank policy rates since 2000 across South Africa, United States, Brazil, and Mexico.
Method
Official annual series (2000–2025), read directly from the source without adjustments and plotted as published.
- Read. Reads series M.ZA directly as published by the source.
- Period. Keeps each year's December value, 2000 to 2025.
- Chart. Draws the series as a line and marks the latest year.
- Source
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
- Dataset
- Central bank policy rates (WS_CBPOL)
- Series code
- M.ZA
Read from the Belo Lake on November 8, 2026.
Data
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.75 |
| 2024 | 7.75 |
| 2023 | 8.25 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2021 | 3.75 |
| 2020 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 6.5 |
| 2018 | 6.75 |
| 2017 | 6.75 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2015 | 6.25 |
| 2014 | 5.75 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2011 | 5.5 |
| 2010 | 5.5 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2008 | 11.5 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2004 | 7.5 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2002 | 13.5 |
| 2001 | 9.5 |
| 2000 | 12 |