africaAPI

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Central Banks

Use Africa API signals and data endpoints for current central-bank policy rates, benchmark rates, and monthly inflation signals.

Central Bank Signals

Africa API uses official central-bank releases to provide fresher country signals than annual macro datasets alone.

The current live slice covers:

  • 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

These series are additive:

  • historical annual series still live in /v1/data
  • current releases are surfaced through /v1/countries/{country_code}/signals

Example

Kenya Signals
curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/ke/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"
Nigeria Signals
curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/ng/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"
South Africa Signals
curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/za/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"
Senegal Signals
curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/sn/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"
Morocco Signals
curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/ma/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"
Namibia Signals
curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/na/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"
Tanzania Signals
curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/tz/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"
Tunisia Signals
curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/countries/tn/signals" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"
One Explicit Current Series
curl "https://api.africa-api.com/v1/data?country_code=ke&metric_key=policy_rate_pct&latest=true" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFRICA_API_KEY"

Why It Is Modeled This Way

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

Africa API keeps the contract simple by:

  • keeping historical series stable
  • exposing current releases as clearly labeled signal metrics
  • showing source, frequency, and as_of_period in the response

The BCEAO layer expands current policy-rate coverage across:

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

The BEAC layer expands current policy-rate coverage across:

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

Morocco now also has an official Bank Al-Maghrib policy-rate signal through the same policy_rate_pct metric.

Namibia now also has an official Bank of Namibia repo-rate signal through the same policy_rate_pct metric.

Expected next expansions include reserves, yields, and similar current macro signals.

Signals

Read the compact country snapshot that surfaces the latest current signals.

Economy

See the broader macro and monthly economic signal catalog.

Commodities

Use benchmark commodity prices from country signals to add current market context without leaving the API.

Demographics

Use indicators and data endpoints to work with population, age, fertility, and dependency metrics.

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