Inflation by country, 1990-2025 (consumer prices and GDP deflator)

What does this dataset do?

This workbook holds annual inflation for 217 economies from 1990 to 2025 in two measures: consumer prices, the yearly change in the consumer price index from the IMF's International Financial Statistics database, and the GDP deflator, the yearly change in the implicit price index of economy-wide output. The figures are the World Bank's World Development Indicators, unmodified. Each measure has its own tab, laid out as one row per country and one column per year.

The Latest year tab gives each country's most recent consumer price inflation, the year before, the change between them, a five-year average and a ten-year sparkline, all calculated by formula from the data tab. The Decades tab averages each decade. The Dashboard shows world inflation with a bar for every year, the regional picture for the latest year, and the 15 highest-inflation countries.

Every number is the published value. Where the World Bank publishes nothing, the cell is blank and nothing is estimated. Heat-map colors reflect the published values when the file was built, and deflation is shown in a blue tint. The About tab quotes the official definitions and gives a credit line under CC BY 4.0.

What’s inside

• 217 economies, 1990-2025, with ISO3 code, World Bank region and income group
• Two indicators: FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG (consumer prices) and NY.GDP.DEFL.KD.ZG (GDP deflator), unmodified
• Latest year tab with change, direction arrow, five-year average and a ten-year sparkline, all by formula
• Decades tab with 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s averages and a bar for each decade
• Dashboard with KPI tiles, a bar for every year since 1990 and a formula-driven top-15 ranking
• CC BY 4.0 with a ready-made credit line and the official definitions on the About tab

Which tabs does the workbook have?

What formulas does this dataset use?

This dataset holds 4,099 formulas in 22,555 cells across 7 tabs, so 18% of its cells calculate. They use 18 distinct functions; the longest formula is 2,725 characters and 2,051 of them read from another tab.

The 12 most used of 18 functions. Counted from the workbook itself. Only functions that Excel, LibreOffice Calc, Google Sheets and Apple Numbers evaluate the same way are used, so the formulas survive every download format.

How do you use it?

1. Open the Dashboard for world inflation, the regional picture and the highest-inflation countries.
2. Open a data tab, pick a country row and read across the years, or copy a column for one year.
3. Use the Latest year tab to compare countries on their most recent value, and the year column says which year each figure is from.
4. Use the Decades tab to compare average inflation across decades for each country.
5. Copy the credit line from the About tab when you publish anything based on the data.

What do the columns and units mean?

Where does the data come from?

World Bank, World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 9 Oct 2026.

Cite as: World Bank, World Development Indicators (FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG, NY.GDP.DEFL.KD.ZG), database last updated 2026-10-08; retrieved 2026-10-09 from https://api.worldbank.org/v2/. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

Underlying sources per the World Bank: consumer prices from the IMF International Financial Statistics database; GDP deflator from national statistical offices, central banks and World Bank staff estimates. Values are unmodified; blank means not published. Country list and region and income-group assignments come from the World Bank country API (entries with a region other than 'NA').

What is it good for?

• Comparing inflation across countries in the latest year
• Tracking world inflation year by year since 1990
• Finding episodes of deflation or very high inflation in a country's history
• Building regional comparisons for an economics or finance report
• Joining inflation rates to GDP and country data on ISO3 codes

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