Cash Rate

Reserve Bank of India, via BIS

India repo rate

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5.25%

−0.25 pp last change (4 Dec 2025)

As at 17 Sep 2026 | Daily (policy rate; changes on decision days)

Mean
6.88%
Median
6.50%
Min
3.00% 1 Jan 1946
Max
12.00% 9 Oct 1991
DateRate
17 Sep 20265.25
31 Aug 20265.25
31 Jul 20265.25
30 Jun 20265.25
31 May 20265.25
30 Apr 20265.25
31 Mar 20265.25
28 Feb 20265.25
31 Jan 20265.25
31 Dec 20255.25
30 Nov 20255.50
31 Oct 20255.50
30 Sep 20255.50
31 Aug 20255.50
31 Jul 20255.50
30 Jun 20255.50
31 May 20256.00
30 Apr 20256.00
31 Mar 20256.25
28 Feb 20256.25
31 Jan 20256.50
31 Dec 20246.50
30 Nov 20246.50
31 Oct 20246.50

About the repo rate

Reserve Bank of India repo rate, from the BIS policy-rate data set (WS_CBPOL, IN). Current: 5.25% on 17 Sep 2026. Since 2001 this is the overnight repo rate; earlier years are the Bank Rate.

The chart is a step at policy changes. From 1 Jan 1946 to 17 Sep 2026 (29,480 observations): mean 6.88%, median 6.50%; low 3.00% (1 Jan 1946), high 12.00% (9 Oct 1991). Not a mortgage or deposit rate. This page is not an official BIS publication.

Source: BIS central bank policy rates (WS_CBPOL), India daily. Licence: BIS statistics: unrestricted reuse with attribution; inclusion must not add a charge to users. This page is not an official BIS publication (terms). Files: data/raw/bis-in-policy.json.

Reading this series

India's repo rate is the rate at which the Reserve Bank of India lends to banks against government securities and is the country's main policy rate. This page uses the BIS central bank policy rate series for India (WS_CBPOL), compiled with the RBI, stored as dated level changes and drawn as daily steps from 1946. Since 2001 the series is the overnight repo rate; earlier years are the Bank Rate, which was the policy instrument before the current framework. The rate changes only at RBI Monetary Policy Committee decisions.

Read the headline with its as-of date, then the "versus the previous reading" line. Where the rate has been unchanged, the page shows the date of the last actual move instead of a run of zero changes. Mean, median, low and high are arithmetic summaries of the observations in this build, not official figures. Chart and Table present one series two ways, the range buttons only filter what is drawn, and Explore adds zoom and pan on request. The repo rate is not a mortgage or deposit rate, and this page is not an official BIS publication.

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The United Kingdom desk leads with Bank Rate, the Bank of England's policy rate, then SONIA, the sterling overnight market benchmark the Bank publishes but does not set. Euro-area, US, Canadian and Australian rates follow, with the rest of the build's series after them. All desks republish the same official series; this desk only reorders the menu and the wording, so the figures do not change when you switch desks.

Both UK series come from Bank of England statistical tables and are republished under the Bank's open-data terms, with attribution. Bank Rate is a policy setting that moves at MPC decisions; SONIA is a transaction-based market rate that moves daily. The build does not publish a UK retail mortgage or savings rate, because no such official series is ingested here — those pages are absent rather than estimated. This is not financial advice.