Central Banks

Central Bank Signals

Query policy rates and selected economic observations from official central-bank releases. Check the source and reporting period when comparing values.

Available series by country or currency union:

• CEMAC countries via BEAC
  • policy_rate_pct
• Morocco
  • policy_rate_pct
• WAEMU countries via BCEAO
  • policy_rate_pct
• Nigeria
  • policy_rate_pct
  • official_exchange_rate_latest_lcu_per_usd
  • inflation_cpi_latest_yoy_pct
• South Africa
  • policy_rate_pct
  • inflation_cpi_latest_yoy_pct
• Kenya
  • policy_rate_pct
  • overnight_interbank_rate_pct
  • inflation_cpi_latest_yoy_pct
• Namibia
  • policy_rate_pct
• Tanzania
  • policy_rate_pct
  • inflation_cpi_latest_yoy_pct
  • interbank_7d_rate_pct
  • official_exchange_rate_latest_lcu_per_usd
• Tunisia
  • policy_rate_pct
  • official_exchange_rate_latest_lcu_per_usd

Use /v1/data for historical annual series and explicit metric queries. /v1/countries/{country_code}/signals returns selected latest releases for one country.

Example

curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/ke/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"

curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/ng/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"

curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/za/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"

curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/sn/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"

curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/ma/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"

curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/na/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"

curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/tz/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"

curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/tn/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"

curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/data?country_code=ke&metric_key=policy_rate_pct&latest=true" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"

Reporting periods and source coverage

Central-bank sources publish at different cadences and with different definitions than annual international datasets.

Read source, frequency, and as_of_period to identify the publisher, publication cadence, and period represented by each value. A latest release may describe an earlier month or decision date.

BCEAO policy-rate coverage includes:

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Guinea-Bissau
• Mali
• Niger
• Senegal
• Togo

BEAC policy-rate coverage includes:

• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon