What is the inflation rate in each country, and how has it changed since 1980?
In the IMF's World Economic Outlook (October 2026), annual average consumer price inflation in 2025 (fiscal years stored under the year they end) ranged from -4.7% in Niger to 252.0% in Venezuela across 184 countries, with a median of 3.0%, compared with a median of 14.1% across the 135 countries with a 1980 value.
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About this data
Every source on this page (3)
Who is behind the sources
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Each publisher, its funding and its own description
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) · International bodyFunding: Quota subscriptions from its member countries, sized to each economy; its running costs are paid mainly from income on its lending. sourceIn its own words: “…works to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for all of its 191 member countries.” source, retrieved 2026-10-27
- World Bank · International bodyFunding: Capital from its member governments, bonds sold on world capital markets, and donor contributions to its fund for the poorest countries (IDA). sourceIn its own words: “We exist to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet.” source, retrieved 2026-10-27
- OECD · International bodyFunding: Contributions from its member countries, set by a formula based on the size of each economy, plus voluntary contributions. sourceIn its own words: “Our core aim is to set international standards and support their implementation…” source, retrieved 2026-10-27
- IMF World Economic Outlook (October 2026), PCPIPCHUsed for 196 countries; counts toward 196. Years 2010 to 2026. Retrieved 2026-10-27.Open the publisher's pageData: one of 196 files (API; each row's sources list its own)
- World Bank, World Development Indicators, FP.CPI.TOTL.ZGUsed for 193 countries; counts toward 5. Years 2011 to 2025. Retrieved 2026-10-27.Not counted where: it republishes IMF WEO.Open the publisher's pageData: one of 193 files (API; each row's sources list its own)
- OECD Prices database, CPI growth over one year (national CPI)Used for 48 countries; counts toward 0 (shown only). Years 2020 to 2025. Retrieved 2026-10-27.Not counted where: it republishes IMF WEO.Open the publisher's pageData: one of 48 files (API; each row's sources list its own)
Why the numbers differ (5)
- 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 (4)
- 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)
Context (4)
- IMF DataMapper: definition of the WEO inflation indicators (average and end-of-period). Retrieved 2026-10-27.
- World Bank metadata for FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG, including its source note naming the IMF's International Financial Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-27.
- OECD prices database (DSD_PRICES@DF_PRICES_ALL): national CPI and HICP series by country. Retrieved 2026-10-27.
- IMF Executive Board statement of February 2013 on the quality of Argentina's official CPI data. Retrieved 2026-10-27.
Sources considered and not used (7)
- IMF World Economic Outlook, estimate and projection years: For each country, WEO years after the latest year of actual data that the IMF gives in its SDMX metadata (LATEST_ACTUAL_ANNUAL_DATA) are IMF estimates or projections and are left out; each line's definition note names that year. (source, retrieved 2026-10-27)
- IMF World Economic Outlook, Bhutan: The IMF reports fiscal-year data for these countries (latest actual year given as a fiscal year) but its metadata do not state how fiscal years map to calendar years, so the WEO series cannot be stored under the year each fiscal year ends; other lines are kept. (source, retrieved 2026-10-27)
- OECD HICP series: Not shown as its own line: it comes from the same national price collection, and for EU members the WEO line already shows the HICP. It is used only to identify where the WEO switches index. (source, retrieved 2026-10-27)
- IMF International Financial Statistics (direct): The World Bank line republishes it, and it carries the same national CPI as the WEO line. (source, retrieved 2026-10-27)
- Regional, income-group and world aggregates (IMF, World Bank, OECD): The page lists countries and territories only.
- INDEC (Argentina) consumer price index pages: INDEC's page builds its text with scripts and its 2016 report could not be read with the standard library, so INDEC's own statement on its 2007-2015 series is not quoted here. (source, retrieved 2026-10-27)
- Independent price indices (online price collections, private estimates): Not searched in this version of the page.
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