Consumer price inflation in Malawi

Consumer prices in Malawi changed by 28.4% in 2025.

Measure: Consumer price inflation (World Bank) Unit: Annual % change Data: 1981 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Malawi, 2025 28.4% Annual % change
Change from 2024 −3.8percentage points 2024: 32.2%
World, 2025 3.0% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 5th of 169 See the full ranking

Consumer price inflation in Malawi 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 MalawiWorld
2025 28.4% 3.0%
2024 32.2% 3.0%
2023 28.8% 5.7%
2022 21.0% 8.0%
2021 9.3% 3.5%
2020 8.6% 1.9%
2019 9.4% 2.2%
2018 12.4% 2.5%
2017 11.5% 2.3%
2016 21.7% 1.6%
2015 21.9% 1.4%
2014 23.8% 2.4%
2013 27.3% 2.6%
2012 21.3% 3.7%
2011 7.6% 4.8%
2010 7.4% 3.3%
2009 8.4% 2.9%
2008 8.7% 8.9%
2007 8.0% 4.8%
2006 14.0% 4.3%
2005 15.4% 4.1%
2004 11.4% 3.5%
2003 9.6% 3.0%
2002 14.7% 2.9%
2001 22.7% 3.8%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −3.8 percentage points from 32.2% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 21.9%, the figure has changed by +6.5 percentage points.
  • Among the 169 countries with data for 2025, Malawi has the 5th 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
1981 to 2025 for Malawi
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