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Bank of England Interest Rate
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | date | date |
| rate | number | in percent % |
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- Last updated
- 9 February 2026
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About this dataset
Interest Rate since 1694 from Bank of England.
Data
Data comes from the Bank of England Website www.bankofengland.co.uk. Rate is either minimum lending rate, minimum band 1 dealing rate, or repo rate depending on era. Converted by assuming where month or day not given that it was the first of the month (see data.original.csv)
Original data in xls format www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/Documents/rates/baserate.xls
Automation
Up-to-date (auto-updates every month) interest-rate-gb dataset could be found on the datahub.io: https://datahub.io/core/interest-rates-gb
License
Public Domain Dedication and License.