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Ireland: Central bank policy rate

The central bank's main policy rate at the end of the month, as compiled by the Bank for International Settlements from the central banks' announcements (the midpoint of a target range; for euro-area members, the European Central Bank's rate).

Data status: Current
Official statisticSource figures as of October 16, 2026Sources & methods
Sources
Bank for International Settlements, from central banks
Period covered
Jan 1999 – Sep 2026
Source figures as of
October 16, 2026
Geography
Ireland
Sector
Whole economy (not a single sector)
Seasonal adjustment
Not applicable
Transformations
Views other than the level (changes, averages, volatility) are calculated by CK Economics from these figures
Revisions
Replaced with the source’s latest figures whenever it revises them.
Data status
Current

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Key figures

CK estimate% per year · calculated by CK Economics from Bank for International Settlements data

Latest · Sep 2026
2.5
+0.5 pp vs a year earlier1
5-year change
+2.5 pp
since Sep 20212
10-year change
+2.5 pp
since Sep 20162
Record high
4.75
Oct 2000 (and 6 other periods)3
Record low
0
Mar 2016 (and 75 other periods)3
Where the latest ranks
65th pct.
Higher than 65% of the other 332 observations since Jan 19994
  1. 1Latest observation against the observation one year earlier (for weekly data, the nearest within three days).
  2. 2Latest observation against the observation five and ten years earlier.
  3. 3Highest and lowest published observations across the full history shown.
  4. 4Share of the other published observations that are lower than the latest one, rounded down.

Methodology

The central bank's main policy rate at the end of the month, as compiled by the Bank for International Settlements from the central banks' announcements (the midpoint of a target range; for euro-area members, the European Central Bank's rate). Compiled by the BIS from the central banks' own announcements: each country's main policy rate at the end of the month. Euro-area members show the European Central Bank's rate (the deposit facility rate since September 2024, the main refinancing rate before), from 1999. For a target range (the U.S. federal funds rate), the BIS gives its midpoint. Source series WS_CBPOL:M.XM. Licence: BIS terms of permitted use of BIS statistics: unrestricted, with the BIS cited as the source (https://data.bis.org/help/legal).

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Source

Bank for International Settlements, from central banks, Central bank policy rates (BIS, retrieved 2026-10-19). https://data.bis.org/topics/CBPOL/BIS%2CWS_CBPOL%2C1.0/M.XM

All data

333 observations, newest first · % per year

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PeriodValueChange y/y
Sep 20262.5+0.5 pp
Aug 20262.25+0.25 pp
Jul 20262.25+0.25 pp
Jun 20262.25+0.25 pp
May 20262−0.25 pp
Apr 20262−0.25 pp
Mar 20262−0.5 pp
Feb 20262−0.75 pp
Jan 20262−1 pp
Dec 20252−1 pp
Nov 20252−1.25 pp
Oct 20252−1.25 pp
Sep 20252−1.5 pp
Aug 20252−2.25 pp
Jul 20252−2.25 pp
Jun 20252−2.25 pp
May 20252.25−2.25 pp
Apr 20252.25−2.25 pp
Mar 20252.5−2 pp
Feb 20252.75−1.75 pp
Jan 20253−1.5 pp
Dec 20243−1.5 pp
Nov 20243.25−1.25 pp
Oct 20243.25−1.25 pp