Central African Republic policy interest rate
Taux d'Interet des Appels d'Offres (TIAO) of the Banque des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale, the single monetary policy rate for all six CEMAC member states including the Central African Republic.
| Current value | 4.5 percent |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-06-29 |
| Official source | BEAC, Decision N°01/CPM/2026 du 29 juin 2026 portant fixation des taux directeurs de la BEAC (2e session ordinaire du Comite de Politique Monetaire, Yaounde) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-20 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
The Central African Republic has NO national policy rate. Monetary policy is set union-wide by BEAC for all six CEMAC members (Cameroon, CAR, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon); this value and effective date are identical across all six country files. At its 2nd ordinary session of 2026 (29 June 2026, Yaounde) the Comite de Politique Monetaire cut the TIAO from 4.75% to 4.50%, cut the marginal lending facility (facilite de pret marginal) from 6.25% to 5.75%, and lowered reserve requirements from 7.00% to 6.50% on sight deposits and from 4.50% to 4.00% on term deposits. ACCESS QUIRK: both the CPM press release and Decision N°01/CPM/2026 are published on beac.int only as scanned image PDFs with no text layer (Canon scanner output, no OCR), so the numeric values could not be machine-read from the instrument itself; the 4.50% figure and the 29 June 2026 session date are corroborated by the BEAC 'Decisions de politique monetaire' index page, which lists Decision N°01/CPM/2026 of 29 June 2026 as the current rate-setting instrument. BEAC publishes no separate 'date d'entree en vigueur' on the index; effective_from is the CPM session/decision date, which is BEAC's normal practice (the following weekly appel d'offres is conducted at the new rate). Currency is the CENTRAL AFRICAN CFA franc (XAF), a legally distinct currency from the West African XOF, though both are pegged to the euro at 655.957 and issued under separate French Treasury guarantee arrangements.
Get it programmatically
curl https://afriref.dev/v1/cf/policy-rate
# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://afriref.dev/v1/cf/policy-rate/history?from=2020-01-01
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