Consumer price inflation
annual %
- Published value. Native scale: percent, can be negative (deflation) or very large.
- Transform: max(0, value) — negative values are set to zero and not rewarded.
- Goalposts (fixed for all years; 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles of all observed country-years): worst = 30.6 scores 0, best = 0.000 scores 100.
- Direction: lower is better, so the position is flipped (1 − position).
- Clip and scale: anything below the worst goalpost scores 0 and anything above the best scores 100; multiply by 100.
Where the numbers come from
- IMF International Financial Statistics produces the series — Annual average consumer price index change; national statistical offices report the CPI to the IMF, which publishes it unchanged.
Source statement as published by the data provider (verbatim)
International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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.
Every country row below has a “verify” link to this series filtered to that country, so each value can be checked against the source.
History
Countries ranked on this indicator
179 countries have a usable value for 2024 (5 carried forward from an earlier year); 38 have none within 2 years.
No official value for 2024: 38 countries
Aruba, Andorra, American Samoa, Bermuda, Channel Islands, Congo, Dem. Rep., Cuba, Curacao, Cayman Islands, Eritrea, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guam, Isle of Man, Liechtenstein, St. Martin (French part), Monaco, Marshall Islands, Myanmar, Northern Mariana Islands, New Caledonia, Naoero, Puerto Rico (US), Korea, Dem. People's Rep., French Polynesia, Somalia, Fed. Rep., Eswatini, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Syrian Arab Republic, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Venezuela, RB, British Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Yemen, Rep.