The CIA World Factbook Edition 2021 Economy
Inflation rate (consumer prices) In 36 editions of 36.
Inflation rate (consumer prices) was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 2021 edition carries it in 230 entries, in its Economy section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2021 edition
- 230
- the first edition with it
- 1990
- the latest edition with it
- 2025
Published as “Inflation rate (consumer prices)” (1990 to 2025), “Inflation rate - consumer price index” (1997) and “Inflation rate-consumer price index” (1998).
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World
1 entryWorld
6.4% (2017 est.)
- 3.7% (2016 est.)
note: the above estimates are weighted averages; inflation in developed countries is 0% to 4% typically, in developing countries, 4% to 10% typically; national inflation rates vary widely in individual cases; inflation rates have declined for most countries for the last several years, held in check by increasing international competition from several low wage countries and by soft demand due to the world financial crisis
Africa
55 entriesCongo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
41.5% (2017 est.)
- 18.2% (2016 est.)
Arctic Region
2 entriesAsia
22 entriesUzbekistan
12.5% (2017 est.)
- 8% (2016 est.)
note: official data; based on independent analysis of consumer prices, inflation reached 22% in 2012
Central America and the Caribbean
30 entriesEurope
48 entriesUkraine
7.9% (2019 est.)
- 11% (2018 est.)
- 14.4% (2017 est.)
note: Excluding the temporarily occupied territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol and part of the anti-terrorist operation zone
Middle East
17 entriesNorth America
5 entriesOceania
23 entriesTokelau
4% (2020 est.)
- 2.5% (2019 est.)
- 11% (2017 est.)
note: Tokelau notes that its wide inflation swings are due almost entirely due to cigarette prices, a chief import.
South America
13 entriesPeru
2.1% (2019 est.)
- 1.3% (2018 est.)
- 2.8% (2017 est.)
note: data are for metropolitan Lima, annual average
Southeast Asia
14 entriesMalaysia
0.6% (2019 est.)
- 0.9% (2018 est.)
- 3.8% (2017 est.)
note: approximately 30% of goods are price-controlled
Cite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2021, “Inflation rate (consumer prices)”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/inflation-rate-consumer-prices/2021.