Consumer price inflation in Papua New Guinea

Consumer prices in Papua New Guinea changed by 4.4% in 2025.

Measure: Consumer price inflation (World Bank) Unit: Annual % change Data: 1972 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Papua New Guinea, 2025 4.4% Annual % change
Change from 2024 +3.8percentage points 2024: 0.6%
World, 2025 3.0% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 42nd of 169 See the full ranking

Consumer price inflation in Papua New Guinea 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 Papua New GuineaWorld
2025 4.4% 3.0%
2024 0.6% 3.0%
2023 2.3% 5.7%
2022 5.3% 8.0%
2021 4.5% 3.5%
2020 4.9% 1.9%
2019 3.9% 2.2%
2018 4.4% 2.5%
2017 5.4% 2.3%
2016 6.7% 1.6%
2015 6.0% 1.4%
2014 5.2% 2.4%
2013 5.0% 2.6%
2012 4.5% 3.7%
2011 4.4% 4.8%
2010 6.0% 3.3%
2009 6.9% 2.9%
2008 10.8% 8.9%
2007 0.9% 4.8%
2006 2.4% 4.3%
2005 1.8% 4.1%
2004 2.2% 3.5%
2003 14.7% 3.0%
2002 11.8% 2.9%
2001 9.3% 3.8%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +3.8 percentage points from 0.6% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 6.0%, the figure has changed by −1.6 percentage points.
  • Among the 169 countries with data for 2025, Papua New Guinea has the 42nd highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 3.0%.

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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
1972 to 2025 for Papua New Guinea
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