Inflation, consumer prices
Annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services.
- World average (population-weighted)
- 6.0 %
- across 176 countries, 2025
- Latest observation
- 2026
- forecast → 2031
- Source updated
- 12 Aug 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
- -4.8 % – 0.7 %
- 0.7 % – 2.1 %
- 2.1 % – 3.1 %
- 3.1 % – 3.9 %
- 3.9 % – 7.7 %
- 7.7 % – 252.0 %
- No data
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2025.
Compare countries
Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
Definition
- Definition
- Annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services.
- Unit
- annual % (%)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · Lower is better
- Valid range
- -30 – 100000
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source193 countries · 9,136 obs. · → 2025 · CC BY 4.0
Inflation as measured by the consumer price index reflects the annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services that may be fixed or changed at specified intervals, such as yearly. Source: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Priority #2Open at source196 countries · 9,197 obs. · → 2031 · © International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook database (April 2026)
IMF WEO — All Items, Consumer price index (CPI), Period average, percent change
- Priority #2Open at source38 countries · 1,022 obs. · → 2025 · CC BY 4.0
Eurostat prc_hicp_aind — HICP - annual data (average index and rate of change)
- Priority #3Open at source1 countries · 906 obs. · → 2026 · Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED; third-party series subject to their own terms · transform yoy_pct · limited to 1 countries
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average — Index 1982-1984=100 — Seasonally Adjusted
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
42 of 218 countries have no value for 2025.
- United States
- Sudan
- Argentina
- Afghanistan
- North Korea
- Syria
- Somalia
- Zimbabwe
- South Sudan
- Cuba
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Eritrea
- Puerto Rico
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Qatar
- Gambia
- Equatorial Guinea
- Bahamas
- New Caledonia
- French Polynesia
- Guam
- Channel Islands
- Curaçao
- 18 more
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=inflation" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'