The yield on UK 5 Year Bond Yield eased to 4.03% on July 24, 2025, marking a 0.02 percentage point decrease from the previous session. Over the past month, the yield has edged up by 0.06 points and is 0.11 points higher than a year ago, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. United Kingdom 5 Year Note Yield - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on July of 2025.

The yield on United Kingdom 10Y Bond Yield rose to 4.65% on July 24, 2025, marking a 0 percentage point increase from the previous session. Over the past month, the yield has edged up by 0.17 points and is 0.49 points higher than a year ago, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. UK 10 Year Gilt Bond Yield - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on July of 2025.

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In 2024, the average yearly yield of UK 10-year government bonds was **** percent. The UK 10-year gilt has shown a significant downward trend from 1990 to 2024. Starting at nearly ** percent in 1990, yields steadily declined, with slight fluctuations, reaching a low of **** percent in 2020. After 2020, yields began to rise again, reflecting recent increases in interest rates and inflation expectations. This long-term decline indicates decreasing inflation and interest rates in Australia over the past decades, with recent economic conditions prompting a reversal in bond yields.

The yield on United Kingdom 30-Year Treasury Gilt Auction Bond Yield eased to 5.40% on July 22, 2025, marking a 0.04 percentage point decrease from the previous session. Over the past month, the yield has edged up by 0.19 points and is 0.76 points higher than a year ago, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. United Kingdom 30-Year Treasury Gilt Auction - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on July of 2025.

Prices for UK 5Y including live quotes, historical charts and news. UK 5Y was last updated by Trading Economics this July 22 of 2025.

The yield on United Kingdom 2Y Bond Yield eased to 3.87% on July 31, 2025, marking a 0.02 percentage point decrease from the previous session. Over the past month, the yield has edged up by 0.02 points and is 0.15 points higher than a year ago, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for UK 2Y.

United Kingdom Gilt Yield: Avg: DMO: Short Term: 5 Years data was reported at 1.131 % pa in Oct 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.115 % pa for Sep 2018. United Kingdom Gilt Yield: Avg: DMO: Short Term: 5 Years data is updated monthly, averaging 3.907 % pa from Apr 1998 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 247 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 6.350 % pa in Jan 2000 and a record low of 0.214 % pa in Aug 2016. United Kingdom Gilt Yield: Avg: DMO: Short Term: 5 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Debt Management Office. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.M012: Gilt Yield: UK Debt Management Office (DMO).

As of April 16, 2025, the UK bond market displayed a positive spread of **** basis points between 10-year and 2-year yields, indicating long-term rates slightly ***** short-term ones. The 5-year versus 2-year spread and the 2-year versus 1-year spread also showed a ******** value, at **** and **** basis points, respectively.

The yield on UK 20 Year Bond Yield rose to 5.37% on July 23, 2025, marking a 0.09 percentage point increase from the previous session. Over the past month, the yield has edged up by 0.26 points and is 0.76 points higher than a year ago, according to over-the-counter interbank yield quotes for this government bond maturity. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for UK 20Y.

Key information about UK Short Term Government Bond Yield

• United Kingdom Short Term Government Bond Yield: Month Avg: United Kingdom: 5 Years was reported at 3.89 % pa in Oct 2024, compared with 3.62 % pa in the previous month.
• UK Short Term Government Bond Yield data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1982 to Oct 2024.
• The data reached an all-time high of 15.47 % pa in Jan 1982 and a record low of -0.08 % pa in Jul 2020.
• Short Term Government Bond Yield is reported by CEIC Data.

As of July 18, 2025, the major economy with the highest yield on 10-year government bonds was Turkey, with a yield of ** percent. This is due to the risks investors take when investing in Turkey, notably due to high inflation rates potentially eradicating any profits made when using a foreign currency to investing in securities denominated in Turkish lira. Of the major developed economies, United Kingdom had one the highest yield on 10-year government bonds at this time with **** percent, while Switzerland had the lowest at **** percent. How does inflation influence the yields of government bonds? Inflation reduces purchasing power over time. Due to this, investors seek higher returns to offset the anticipated decrease in purchasing power resulting from rapid price rises. In countries with high inflation, government bond yields often incorporate investor expectations and risk premiums, resulting in comparatively higher rates offered by these bonds. Why are government bond rates significant? Government bond rates are an important indicator of financial markets, serving as a benchmark for borrowing costs, interest rates, and investor sentiment. They affect the cost of government borrowing, influence the price of various financial instruments, and serve as a reflection of expectations regarding inflation and economic growth. For instance, in financial analysis and investing, people often use the 10-year U.S. government bond rates as a proxy for the longer-term risk-free rate.

As of December 2024, all United Kingdom government debt securities were returning positive yields, regardless of maturity. This places the yield of both UK short term bonds and long term bonds above that of major countries like Germany, France and Japan, but lower than the United States. What are government bonds? Government bonds are debt instruments where a certain amount of money is given to the issuer, in exchange for regular payments of interest over a fixed period. At the end of this period the issuer then returns the amount in full. Bonds differ from a regular loan through how they can be traded on financial markets once issued. This ability to trade bonds makes it more complex to measure the return investors receive from bonds, as the price they buy a bond for on the market may differ from the price the same bond was initially issued at. The yield is therefore calculated as what investors can expect to receive based on current market prices paid for the bond, not the value it was issued at. In total, UK government debt amounted to over 2.4 trillion British pounds in 2023 – with the majority being comprised of different types of UK government bonds. Why are inverted yield curves important? UK government bond yields over recent years have taken on a typical shape, with short term bonds having a lower yield than bonds with a maturity of 10 to 20 years. The higher yield of longer-term bonds compensates investors for the higher level of uncertainty in the future. However, if investors are sufficiently worried about both a short term economic decline, and low long term growth, they may prefer to purchase short term bonds in order to secure assets with regular interest payments in the here and now (as opposed to shares, which can lose a lot of value in a short time). This can lead to an inverted yield curve, where shorter term debt has a higher yield. Inverted yield curves are generally seen as a reliable indicator of a recession, with inverted yields occurring before most recent U.S. recessions. The major exception to this is the recession from the coronavirus pandemic – but even then, U.S. yield curves came perilously close to being inverted in mid-2019.

As of July 22, 2025, the yield for a ten-year U.S. government bond was 4.38 percent, while the yield for a two-year bond was 3.88 percent. This represents an inverted yield curve, whereby bonds of longer maturities provide a lower yield, reflecting investors' expectations for a decline in long-term interest rates. Hence, making long-term debt holders open to more risk under the uncertainty around the condition of financial markets in the future. That markets are uncertain can be seen by considering both the short-term fluctuations, and the long-term downward trend, of the yields of U.S. government bonds from 2006 to 2021, before the treasury yield curve increased again significantly in the following years. What are government bonds? Government bonds, otherwise called ‘sovereign’ or ‘treasury’ bonds, are financial instruments used by governments to raise money for government spending. Investors give the government a certain amount of money (the ‘face value’), to be repaid at a specified time in the future (the ‘maturity date’). In addition, the government makes regular periodic interest payments (called ‘coupon payments’). Once initially issued, government bonds are tradable on financial markets, meaning their value can fluctuate over time (even though the underlying face value and coupon payments remain the same). Investors are attracted to government bonds as, provided the country in question has a stable economy and political system, they are a very safe investment. Accordingly, in periods of economic turmoil, investors may be willing to accept a negative overall return in order to have a safe haven for their money. For example, once the market value is compared to the total received from remaining interest payments and the face value, investors have been willing to accept a negative return on two-year German government bonds between 2014 and 2021. Conversely, if the underlying economy and political structures are weak, investors demand a higher return to compensate for the higher risk they take on. Consequently, the return on bonds in emerging markets like Brazil are consistently higher than that of the United States (and other developed economies). Inverted yield curves When investors are worried about the financial future, it can lead to what is called an ‘inverted yield curve’. An inverted yield curve is where investors pay more for short term bonds than long term, indicating they do not have confidence in long-term financial conditions. Historically, the yield curve has historically inverted before each of the last five U.S. recessions. The last U.S. yield curve inversion occurred at several brief points in 2019 – a trend which continued until the Federal Reserve cut interest rates several times over that year. However, the ultimate trigger for the next recession was the unpredicted, exogenous shock of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, showing how such informal indicators may be grounded just as much in coincidence as causation.