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Rates are not rebased here, unlike the markets overlay: a policy rate is already in per cent, on the same scale for every bank, so the raw level is the honest comparison. Pick up to six.

as of 30 Oct 2026 · 49 central banks · monthly-thinned history

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0.002.004.006.008.0010.0012.00198919992008201720263.875%3.75%2.50%1.25%
FedECBfrom 1999BoEBoJ

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Every line is a step: a policy rate holds between decisions and jumps on the date of one, so the chart never interpolates between two levels that were never actually crossed. A bank whose history starts after the chosen from-date is drawn from its own first point, and its legend entry says so. A bank superseded by the euro stops its line on the date its own rate stopped applying. None of this is investment advice; all of it is monetary policy with a time axis.