Gabon BEAC policy rate (TIAO)
Gabon BEAC policy rate (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 primary policy rate of the Banque des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale, applied uniformly across all six CEMAC member states including Gabon.
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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
Gabon has NO national policy rate. Monetary policy for Gabon is set union-wide by the BEAC for all six CEMAC members (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon); this value and effective_from are therefore identical across all six CEMAC countries. Decision N° 01/CPM/2026 lowered the TIAO from 4.75% to 4.50%, the marginal lending facility rate (taux de la facilite de pret marginal) from 6.25% to 5.75%, and reserve requirement coefficients from 7.00% to 6.50% on sight liabilities and 4.50% to 4.00% on term liabilities; the deposit facility rate was held at 0.00%. The 4.75% predecessor rate is not carried in history because the decision instrument that set it was not retrieved and its effective date could not be confirmed from a primary BEAC source. ACCESS QUIRK: both the decision and the accompanying press communique are IMAGE-ONLY SCANNED PDFs on beac.int - text extraction returns binary garbage, so the figures above were read by OCR/visual inspection of the scan, not text parsing. The beac.int 'Structure des taux d'interet' page does not publish the current numeric rate at all; only the CPM press-release listing does. Currency context: Gabon uses the CENTRAL African CFA franc (XAF), a legally SEPARATE currency from the West African CFA franc (XOF) used by UEMOA states, 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).
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