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Interest rate on new loans to households for consumption
Euro area: 7.61% in May 2026, +0.1 pp on May 2025.
- 7.61% Latest · Euro area · May 2026
- +0.1 pp vs May 2025
- Monthly Release cadence
- 14 Records · 1 region · 2025–2026
Verified 15 Sep 2026 · 1 publisher · Next period June 2026
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Interest rate on new loans to households for consumption
Euro area, February 2025 to May 2026
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| Period | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Actual | 7.58% |
| May 2025 | Actual | 7.53% |
| June 2025 | Actual | 7.4% |
| July 2025 | Actual | 7.46% |
| August 2025 | Actual | 7.51% |
| September 2025 | Actual | 7.4% |
| October 2025 | Actual | 7.33% |
| November 2025 | Actual | 7.33% |
| December 2025 | Actual | 7.15% |
| January 2026 | Actual | 7.51% |
| February 2026 | Actual | 7.51% |
| March 2026 | Actual | 7.46% |
| April 2026 | Actual | 7.59% |
| May 2026 | Actual | 7.61% |
Every record
14 records · 1 region · 2025–2026. Each period links to its record: the value, its source evidence and original document.
| Period | Value | Source | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Euro area 14 records | |||
| May 2026 | 7.61% | ECB · 31 May 2026 | |
| April 2026 | 7.59% | ECB · 30 Apr 2026 | |
| March 2026 | 7.46% | ECB · 31 Mar 2026 | |
| February 2026 | 7.51% | ECB · 28 Feb 2026 | |
| January 2026 | 7.51% | ECB · 31 Jan 2026 | |
| December 2025 | 7.15% | ECB · 31 Dec 2025 | |
| November 2025 | 7.33% | ECB · 30 Nov 2025 | |
| October 2025 | 7.33% | ECB · 31 Oct 2025 | |
| September 2025 | 7.4% | ECB · 30 Sep 2025 | |
| August 2025 | 7.51% | ECB · 31 Aug 2025 | |
| July 2025 | 7.46% | ECB · 31 Jul 2025 | |
| June 2025 | 7.4% | ECB · 30 Jun 2025 | |
| May 2025 | 7.53% | ECB · 31 May 2025 | |
| February 2025 | 7.58% | ECB · 28 Feb 2025 | |
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How this measure is built
- Definition
- Bank interest rate on new loans granted to households for consumption purposes.
- Measure
- One slice of Lending rate ( form: price, segment: consumer credit ) . The interest rate charged by financial institutions on loans extended to borrowers. Region and period are columns on every record, not slices.
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Sources · 14 documents
Other slices of lending rate
- Composite cost of borrowing for new corporate loans 14 corporations
- Composite cost of borrowing for new housing loans to households 14 housing loans
- Interest rate on new housing loans to households with floating rate and fixation up to one year 12 housing loans floating to one year fixation
- Bank interest rate on loans to households for house purchase with initial rate fixation over one and up to five years 5 housing loans one to five years fixation
- Interest rate on new housing loans with initial rate fixation over five and up to ten years 4 housing loans five to ten years fixation
- Interest rate on new corporate loans over EUR 1 million with floating rate and initial rate fixation up to three months 3 corporate loans over one million floating up to three months
- Interest rate on new corporate loans over EUR 1 million with initial rate fixation over three months and up to one year 3
- Interest rate on new corporate loans up to EUR 250,000 with floating rate and initial rate fixation up to three months 3 corporate loans up to 250k floating up to three months
- Interest rate on new housing loans with initial rate fixation over ten years 3 housing loans over ten years fixation
- Effective interest rate on new bank loans to private non-financial corporations 1 new business · private non financial corporations
- Effective interest rate on newly drawn mortgages 1 new business · mortgages
- Monthly change in composite cost of borrowing for new housing loans to households 1 new housing loans to households
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What is the latest interest rate on new loans to households for consumption?
Euro area: 7.61% in May 2026, +0.1 pp on May 2025.
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From 14 documents published by ECB. Every figure on this page links to its record, which preserves the original source evidence.
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Monthly. The newest published period is May 2026; the next release should cover June 2026. A new figure appears here once the publisher releases it and it passes verification.
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StatOrigin. (2026). Interest rate on new loans to households for consumption [Data set]. Retrieved October 28, 2026, from https://statorigin.org/indicators/interest-rate-on-new-loans-to-households-for-consumption
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