Inflation rate (consumer prices):
4.5% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 129 1.2% (2009 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
1.75% (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 117 3% (31 December 2008)
note: this is the European Central Bank's rate on the marginal lending facility, which offers overnight credit to banks in the euro area
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
8.59% (31 December 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 109 8.65% (31 December 2008 est.)
Stock of narrow money:
$152.8 billion (31 December 2010 est) country comparison to the world: 22 $172.8 billion (31 December 2009 est)
note: see entry for the European Union for money supply in the euro area; the European Central Bank (ECB) controls monetary policy for the 16 members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); individual members of the EMU do not control the quantity of money circulating within their own borders