Central bank policy rates (monthly, 49 economies)
Monthly end-of-period central bank policy (target) rates published by the BIS, from 1945 to the latest month. Bank for International Settlements, BIS Data Portal.
Source: Bank for International Settlements25,096 rowsUpdated: 9/22/2026
monetary-policypolicy-ratesinterest-ratescentral-banks
Quality
97
Attribution
Bank for International Settlements
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | Observation period (the TIME_PERIOD column of the BIS SDMX-CSV response). Monthly series use YYYY-MM; quarterly series use YYYY-QN, stored as the first day of the quarter. |
| series_id | string | BIS area code, e.g. 'US': the unique identifier of the series in the BIS Data Portal. |
| series_label | string | English economy name from the BIS's own CL_BIS_GL_REF_AREA codelist, e.g. 'United States', 'Euro area'. |
| value | float | Observed policy rate for the economy and month (the OBS_VALUE column). Unit 368: per cent per annum; monthly values are end-of-period. |
Sample rows
| date | series_id | series_label | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-04-01 | AR | Argentina | 0.63 |
| 1993-05-01 | AR | Argentina | 0.11 |
| 1993-06-01 | AR | Argentina | 0.53 |
| 1993-07-01 | AR | Argentina | 0.36 |
| 1993-08-01 | AR | Argentina | 0.25 |
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Use with an LLM
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cURL
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/bis/bis_central_bank_policy_rates" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'Python
import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/bis/bis_central_bank_policy_rates").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/bis/bis_central_bank_policy_rates
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.