Inflation Rate by Country, Historical Data 2000-2024

About This Dataset

Annual consumer price inflation for twelve major economies at benchmark years from 2000 to 2024, from World Bank Open Data. Argentina is shown only for the years the World Bank publishes; its 2000-2015 figures are not in the database because the national statistics of that period were disputed.

✨ AI Insight

Three different inflation stories run side by side here. The rich economies spent two decades near zero and then broke out together in 2022: the United States hit 8.0 percent, the United Kingdom 7.9, Germany 6.9 and France 5.2, the worst readings any of them had recorded since the series begins in 2000. By 2024 all four were back between 2.0 and 3.3 percent, so the spike lasted about two years rather than becoming permanent. Turkey is the opposite case, a country that never converged: 54.9 percent in 2000, down to 8.2 by 2005, then back to 72.3 percent in 2022 and still 58.5 in 2024, higher than where it started. Argentina is higher still at 219.9 percent in 2024. Japan and China are the quiet ends of the range. Japan recorded outright deflation in 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2021 and only reached 3.3 percent in 2023, its highest here, while China went the other way during the global spike, sitting at 2.0 percent in 2022 and just 0.2 percent in both 2023 and 2024.

Source: World Bank Open Data

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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Argentina leads with 220 in 2024.

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Japan grew fastest: +485.7% from 2000 to 2024 (-0.70 → 2.70).

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Russia declined most: -59.6% from 2000 to 2024 (20.80 → 8.40).

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Average value in 2024: 26 · median: 4.

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2024 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.

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Gap in 2024: Argentina is 1099.5× larger than China.