Consumer price inflation in Burundi

Consumer prices in Burundi changed by 34.1% in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest since 1979.

Measure: Consumer price inflation (World Bank) Unit: Annual % change Data: 1966 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Burundi, 2025 34.1% Annual % change
Change from 2024 +13.9percentage points 2024: 20.2%
World, 2025 3.0% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 3rd of 169 See the full ranking

Consumer price inflation in Burundi over time

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Annual % change. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Consumer price inflation (World Bank) (annual % change), 2001 to 2025
Period BurundiWorld
2025 34.1% 3.0%
2024 20.2% 3.0%
2023 26.9% 5.7%
2022 18.8% 8.0%
2021 8.4% 3.5%
2020 7.3% 1.9%
2019 -0.7% 2.2%
2018 -2.8% 2.5%
2017 16.1% 2.3%
2016 5.6% 1.6%
2015 5.5% 1.4%
2014 4.4% 2.4%
2013 7.9% 2.6%
2012 18.2% 3.7%
2011 9.6% 4.8%
2010 6.5% 3.3%
2009 10.6% 2.9%
2008 24.4% 8.9%
2007 8.4% 4.8%
2006 2.7% 4.3%
2005 13.3% 4.1%
2004 8.2% 3.5%
2003 10.6% 3.0%
2002 -1.4% 2.9%
2001 9.3% 3.8%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +13.9 percentage points from 20.2% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 5.5%, the figure has changed by +28.6 percentage points.
  • Among the 169 countries with data for 2025, Burundi has the 3rd highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 3.0%.

Source and dates

Original producer
International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1966 to 2025 for Burundi
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics