Upper middle income - Inflation, consumer prices (annual %)

The value for Inflation, consumer prices (annual %) in Upper middle income was 4.17 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 35 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.57 in 1994 and a minimum value of 1.49 in 2015.

Definition: 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. The Laspeyres formula is generally used.

Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files.

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Year Value
1986 8.68
1987 7.02
1988 8.35
1989 11.39
1990 13.49
1991 14.71
1992 11.96
1993 13.08
1994 22.57
1995 14.90
1996 9.06
1997 7.36
1998 6.85
1999 5.02
2000 5.66
2001 6.03
2002 5.70
2003 5.16
2004 4.68
2005 4.74
2006 4.80
2007 5.69
2008 9.54
2009 2.59
2010 3.86
2011 5.67
2012 3.78
2013 2.79
2014 2.99
2015 1.49
2016 1.69
2017 3.21
2018 2.62
2019 2.10
2020 1.72
2021 4.17

Aggregation method: Median

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exchange rates & prices