Taiwan’s central bank left its key discount rate unchanged at 2% at its December 2025 meeting, in line with market expectations and extending a pause in policy since March 2024. Policymakers cited moderate inflation, with headline CPI forecast to rise 1.66% year on year and core CPI at 1.65%, both lower than in 2024 and expected to ease further to 1.63% in 2026. Economic growth has remained robust, with GDP expanding 7.18% year-on-year in the first three quarters, surpassing forecasts, and full-year growth expected at 7.31%, well above the September projection of 4.55%, supported by strong demand for emerging technologies such as AI, which has driven substantial export growth. The central bank noted ongoing global uncertainties, including potential US trade-policy shocks, slower growth in China, and geopolitical and climate risks, while Taiwanese goods remain subject to a 20% US tariff amid ongoing negotiations for a more favorable agreement. source: Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
The benchmark interest rate in Taiwan was last recorded at 2 percent. Interest Rate in Taiwan averaged 1.78 percent from 2000 until 2026, reaching an all time high of 4.63 percent in December of 2000 and a record low of 1.13 percent in March of 2020. This page provides the latest reported value for - Taiwan Interest Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Taiwan Interest Rate - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on February of 2026.
The benchmark interest rate in Taiwan was last recorded at 2 percent. Interest Rate in Taiwan is expected to be 2.00 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Taiwan Interest Rate is projected to trend around 1.25 percent in 2026, according to our econometric models.