United States Real Interest Rate
United States real interest rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: -1.09%.
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Labor Market6
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Interpretation
United States recorded -1.09% for Real Interest Rate in 2021, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2020, the indicator decreased by 3.93 percentage points, from 2.85% to -1.09%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (2.01%).
Across the five latest available observations (2017–2021), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was -1.09% in 2021 and the high was 3.72% in 2019.