Inflation

Change in consumer prices from the year before.

measured by: World Bank
originally from: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics
years covered: 1960–2025
subject: Economic

Neither end of this scale is better. It is context, not a score.

How this is measured

Annual change in the cost of a basket of goods, as measured by each country’s own consumer price index — and the composition of that basket is a national choice, which limits comparison. Neutral in direction because both ends are bad: sustained deflation is not an improvement on mild inflation. Hyperinflations produce values in the thousands that will flatten the rest of any chart they appear in.

Highest first for 2025

144 countries and territories have a figure for 2025. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1960.

#	Country	Region	Inflation
1	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	42.2%
2	Turkey	Eurasia	34.9%
3	Burundi	Sub-Saharan Africa	34.1%
4	Haiti	Americas	28.6%
5	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	28.4%
6	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	23.0%
7	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	20.2%
8	Bolivia	Americas	19.5%
9	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	14.6%
10	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	14.2%
11	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	14.1%
12	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	13.9%
13	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	13.2%
14	Ukraine	Eurasia	12.7%
15	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	11.4%
16	Palestine	Middle East & North Africa	9.8%
17	Suriname	Americas	9.2%
18	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	8.8%
19	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	8.8%
20	Russia	Eurasia	8.7%
21	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	8.6%
22	Liberia	Sub-Saharan Africa	8.3%
23	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	8.2%
24	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	8.1%
25	Moldova	Eurasia	7.8%
26	Laos	Asia-Pacific	7.7%
27	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa	7.5%
28	Romania	Europe	7.2%
29	Belarus	Eurasia	6.6%
30	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	5.9%
31	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	5.6%
32	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	5.2%
33	Colombia	Americas	5.1%
34	Brazil	Americas	5.0%
35	Estonia	Europe	4.8%
36	Uruguay	Americas	4.7%
37	Honduras	Americas	4.6%
38	Bulgaria	Europe	4.6%
39	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	4.4%
40	Hungary	Europe	4.4%
41	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.4%
42	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.3%
43	Chile	Americas	4.2%
44	Iceland	Europe	4.1%
45	North Macedonia	Europe	4.1%
46	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.1%
47	Paraguay	Americas	4.0%
48	Jamaica	Americas	4.0%
49	Slovakia	Europe	4.0%
50	Montenegro	Europe	3.9%
51	Serbia	Europe	3.9%
52	United Kingdom	Europe	3.9%
53	Dominican Republic	Americas	3.9%
54	Georgia	Eurasia	3.9%
55	Kosovo	Europe	3.9%
56	Poland	Europe	3.8%
57	Mexico	Americas	3.8%
58	Lithuania	Europe	3.8%
59	Latvia	Europe	3.7%
60	Croatia	Europe	3.7%
61	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.6%
62	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	3.6%
63	Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.5%
64	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	3.5%
65	Austria	Europe	3.5%
66	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.5%
67	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.4%
68	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	3.4%
69	Guyana	Americas	3.3%
70	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.3%
71	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	3.3%
72	Armenia	Eurasia	3.3%
73	Mali	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.3%
74	Netherlands	Europe	3.3%
75	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.2%
76	Japan	Asia-Pacific	3.2%
77	Norway	Europe	3.1%
78	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	3.0%
79	Australia	Asia-Pacific	2.9%
80	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	2.8%
81	Spain	Europe	2.7%
82	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.7%
83	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	2.7%
84	Greece	Europe	2.5%
85	Belgium	Europe	2.5%
86	Czechia	Europe	2.5%
87	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.4%
88	India	Asia-Pacific	2.4%
89	Slovenia	Europe	2.4%
90	Kuwait	Middle East & North Africa	2.4%
91	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	2.4%
92	Portugal	Europe	2.3%
93	Luxembourg	Europe	2.3%
94	Ireland	Europe	2.2%
95	Germany	Europe	2.2%
96	Albania	Europe	2.1%
97	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	2.1%
98	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	2.1%
99	Nicaragua	Americas	2.1%
100	Canada	Americas	2.1%
101	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	1.9%
102	Denmark	Europe	1.9%
103	Libya	Middle East & North Africa	1.8%
104	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.8%
105	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	1.8%
106	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	1.7%
107	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.5%
108	Italy	Europe	1.5%
109	Peru	Americas	1.5%
110	Guatemala	Americas	1.5%
111	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.5%
112	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	1.4%
113	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	1.4%
114	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	1.3%
115	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.1%
116	Belize	Americas	1.1%
117	Central African Republic	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.0%
118	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	1.0%
119	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	1.0%
120	France	Europe	0.9%
121	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.9%
122	Ecuador	Americas	0.7%
123	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	0.7%
124	Sweden	Europe	0.7%
125	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	0.7%
126	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.4%
127	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	0.4%
128	Finland	Europe	0.3%
129	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	0.3%
130	El Salvador	Americas	0.3%
131	Switzerland	Europe	0.2%
132	Cyprus	Europe	0.1%
133	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.1%
134	China	Asia-Pacific	0.1%
135	Costa Rica	Americas	-0.1%
136	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	-0.1%
137	Panama	Americas	-0.2%
138	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	-0.3%
139	Djibouti	Sub-Saharan Africa	-0.3%
140	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	-0.6%
141	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	-1.4%
142	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	-3.9%
143	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	-4.5%
144	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	-4.8%

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — World Development Indicators

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