3.6
% change on the previous year (annual average), 2025
Moderate trust, 71 of 100 Only one source (World Bank), so it cannot be checked against another.
Show the data as a table
| Year | World Bank, World Development Indicators, FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG |
|---|---|
| 1981 | 10 |
| 1982 | 9.8 |
| 1983 | 18.1 |
| 1984 | 7 |
| 1985 | 1.9 |
| 1986 | 10 |
| 1987 | 6.3 |
| 1988 | 10.1 |
| 1989 | 8.8 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 12.3 |
| 1992 | 16 |
| 1993 | 11.2 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 8.8 |
| 1997 | 6.5 |
| 1998 | 10.6 |
| 1999 | 6.8 |
| 2000 | 4 |
| 2001 | 3.4 |
| 2002 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 4.1 |
| 2005 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 5.2 |
| 2008 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 4.4 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2011 | 8.8 |
| 2012 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 8.8 |
| 2014 | 8.3 |
| 2015 | 4.5 |
| 2016 | 3.2 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 2.7 |
| 2019 | 2.7 |
| 2020 | 5.6 |
| 2021 | 7.3 |
| 2022 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 4.2 |
| 2024 | 2.8 |
| 2025 | 3.6 |
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Bhutan among 201 countries
75 have a higher figure and 121 a lower one. Definitions differ between countries, and their years run from 2010 to 2026.
What this number counts
- Counts
- Percent change in the annual average consumer price index from the previous year
- Where
- Bhutan
- When
- Calendar year, annual average of the index. Latest year: World Bank 2025 (yearly average over the period)
Where the number comes from (1 source)
| Source | Figure and year | Definition | Quality | Counts for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
World Bank, World Development Indicators, FP.CPI.TOTL.ZGWorld Bank · Official economic statisticsRetrieved 2026-10-27 · Data (API) | 3.62025 | Inflation as measured by the consumer price index: annual percent change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services (WDI indicator FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG, annual average).Series 1981-2025. Raw file: raw/inflation-by-country/worldbank/FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG.json (World Bank API, last updated 8 October 2026). The World Bank's source note names the "International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF)". The IMF WEO series for this country is left out because the IMF does not state how its fiscal years map to calendar years, so this line is counted. | 5 of 5 checks
| 100% |
- World Bank100%
How the trust score was worked out
- Quality40 / 40
How well the sources are made
- Agreement15 / 30
Unknown with one source, so set to half
- Independence6 / 20
How many separate ways the number was measured
- Freshness10 / 10
How recent the newest data is
Who reports it, and since when
No source of these kinds: independent count.
- Single source: nothing to check it against
figure no figure here, inside its range no later figure recorded change
Why the numbers differ
- All three lines start from the same national consumer price index, compiled by each country's statistics office. The World Bank takes it from the IMF's International Financial Statistics, the OECD collects it from the statistics office, and IMF staff compile the World Economic Outlook series. That is one original collection, so only one line per country is counted.
- Index choice: for EU members and the United Kingdom, the WEO shows the EU Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) from the mid-1990s, while the World Bank and OECD lines show the national CPI. The two indices cover different spending (the national CPI of several countries includes owner-occupied housing costs, the HICP does not) and use different weights.
- Rebasing and revisions: when a statistics office moves to a new base year or a new basket, the agencies update their copies at different times, so the same year can differ in the first decimal.
- Timing: each agency publishes on its own schedule; the WEO of October 2026, the World Development Indicators update of October 2026 and the OECD database each hold the figures available when they were compiled. Where national data are late, the WEO fills recent years with staff estimates; this page drops those years, so the latest IMF year differs from country to country.
- Coverage: the WEO omits years it judges unreliable (it has no values for Argentina in the middle of the last decade) and starts some countries late; the World Bank series for some countries start or stop at different years than the IMF's.
Common mistakes
- Mixing annual averages with December-to-December rates. These lines are the change in the average price level over the whole year; the IMF also publishes end-of-period inflation (PCPIEPCH), which can be very different in a year when inflation speeds up or slows down. (source, retrieved 2026-10-27)
- Comparing hyperinflation years on a linear scale. Some rows reach thousands or millions of percent (Bolivia in 1985, Venezuela in 2018, Zimbabwe in 2008), so a chart needs a log scale to show both those years and ordinary ones. The raw values are kept unchanged. (source, retrieved 2026-10-27)
- Comparing an HICP rate for one country with a national CPI rate for another, or with the same country's CPI from a different source, as if they were the same measure.
- Treating WEO values for the current and later years as data. They are IMF projections; this page keeps only years up to the last full year. (source, retrieved 2026-10-27)
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Cite as: RealStats, “Consumer price inflation in Bhutan”, updated 2026-10-27, with the original sources listed on the page.