Gabon policy interest rate
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.
| Current value | 4.5 percent |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-06-29 |
| Official source | Decision N° 01/CPM/2026 du 29 juin 2026 portant fixation des taux directeurs de la BEAC, Comite de Politique Monetaire, seance du 29 juin 2026, Yaounde (signed Yvon Sana Bangui, President du CPM) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-20 |
| 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 country files. 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.
Get it programmatically
curl https://afriref.dev/v1/ga/policy-rate
# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://afriref.dev/v1/ga/policy-rate/history?from=2020-01-01
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