Republic of the Congo Policy rate (BEAC TIAO)
Republic of the Congo Policy rate (BEAC TIAO) is 4.5 percent, in force since 29 Jun 2026. Last checked against the official source on 9 Sep 2026.
Taux d'Interet des Appels d'Offres (TIAO), the principal policy rate of the Banque des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale, applicable union-wide to all six CEMAC member states including the Republic of the Congo.
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| Current value | 4.5 percent |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-06-29 |
| Official source | BEAC, Décision N° 01/CPM/2026 du 29 juin 2026 portant fixation des taux directeurs de la BEAC (Comité de Politique Monétaire, 2e session ordinaire, Yaoundé, 29 juin 2026, signée Yvon Sana Bangui) — TIAO 4,50% |
| Last verified | 2026-09-09 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Congo-Brazzaville has NO national policy rate. Monetary policy is set for the whole CEMAC zone by BEAC; the same TIAO applies identically in Cameroon, CAR, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo. Decision 01/CPM/2026 lowered the TIAO from 4.75% to 4.50%, the marginal lending facility rate from 6.25% to 5.75%, and reserve requirement coefficients from 7.00% to 6.50% (sight liabilities) and 4.50% to 4.00% (term liabilities); the deposit facility rate was held at 0.00%. The decision text states no separate entry-into-force date, so effective_from is the date of the decision itself (29 June 2026). ACCESS QUIRK: the BEAC decision and press-release PDFs are SCANNED IMAGES with no text layer - they were rendered to images and read visually. The beac.int homepage rate widget currently displays 'Aucun taux d'interet disponible', so the decision PDF under /politique-monetaire/decisions-de-politique-monetaire/ is the only reliable primary. Currency note: the XAF (Central African CFA franc, BEAC) is a SEPARATE currency from the West African XOF (BCEAO), though both are pegged to the euro at 655.957. CITATION MECHANICS (2026-08-07): beac.int serves current CPM documents from REUSED filename slots under /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ — the folder marks when the media entry was first created, not the document's date, and the slot's content is OVERWRITTEN at each CPM session (the superseded document then moves to a dated filename, e.g. Communiqué-de-Presse-CPM-du-02-04-2026.pdf). The cited URL therefore always serves the LATEST decision: byte-identity checks will break at the next CPM (Q3 2026) by design, and a changed hash at this URL means a NEW decision to verify, not a broken citation. Décision N° 01/CPM/2026 read in full at this URL on 2026-08-07 (187,152 bytes): TIAO 4,75% → 4,50%; facilité de prêt marginal 6,25% → 5,75%; réserves obligatoires 7,00% → 6,50% (vue) and 4,50% → 4,00% (terme).
Get it programmatically
curl https://afriref.dev/v1/cg/policy-rate
# $0.005 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://afriref.dev/v1/cg/policy-rate/history?from=2020-01-01
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