Long-term interest rate (per cent) - United Kingdom - OECD - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: OECD interest rates
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United Kingdom, the long-term interest rate was 4.80 per cent in June 2026, compared to 4.94 in the previous month.
Sample. The monthly time series plotted above has 798 observations. The time range covered by the series is from January 1960 to June 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the interest rate was equal on average to 6.91 per cent; it recorded a bottom of 0.21 in July 2020; it peaked at 16.34 in October 1981.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Percentage points |
|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 4.8207 |
| 2026-05-31 | 4.9416 |
| 2026-06-30 | 4.796 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long-term interest rate |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Economic concept | Interest rate |
| Data type | Annual interest rate |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Percentage points |
| Source | OECD |
| Source type | International organization |
| Data licence | Redistributable with citation |
| Other information | Long-term interest rates generally refer to government bonds maturing in ten years. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM1 |
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