Upper middle income - Inflation

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

Inflation, GDP deflator (annual %)

The value for Inflation, GDP deflator (annual %) in Upper middle income was 1.36 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 43 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25.12 in 1991 and a minimum value of 1.36 in 2020.

Definition: Inflation as measured by the annual growth rate of the GDP implicit deflator shows the rate of price change in the economy as a whole. The GDP implicit deflator is the ratio of GDP in current local currency to GDP in constant local currency.

Source: World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.

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Year Value
1977 10.87
1978 9.77
1979 13.82
1980 15.21
1981 7.36
1982 7.38
1983 7.50
1984 7.46
1985 8.75
1986 6.57
1987 8.68
1988 9.48
1989 9.00
1990 14.76
1991 25.12
1992 14.08
1993 15.19
1994 20.46
1995 10.59
1996 8.90
1997 7.01
1998 6.50
1999 6.57
2000 7.78
2001 5.91
2002 5.01
2003 4.96
2004 6.90
2005 6.77
2006 7.90
2007 6.54
2008 9.19
2009 2.50
2010 5.44
2011 5.91
2012 4.19
2013 2.66
2014 2.43
2015 2.48
2016 2.63
2017 3.62
2018 3.23
2019 2.53
2020 1.36

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exchange rates & prices