Consumer price inflation in South Asia

Consumer prices in South Asia changed by 3.1% in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest since 2001.

Measure: Consumer price inflation (World Bank) Unit: Annual % change Data: 1965 to 2025 Source: World Bank
South Asia is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
South Asia, 2025 3.1% Annual % change
Change from 2024 −0.6percentage points 2024: 3.7%
World, 2025 3.0% Official aggregate

Consumer price inflation in South Asia 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 South AsiaWorld
2025 3.1% 3.0%
2024 3.7% 3.0%
2023 6.4% 5.7%
2022 7.2% 8.0%
2021 5.3% 3.5%
2020 5.7% 1.9%
2019 3.6% 2.2%
2018 3.3% 2.5%
2017 4.1% 2.3%
2016 4.5% 1.6%
2015 4.7% 1.4%
2014 6.8% 2.4%
2013 8.2% 2.6%
2012 9.5% 3.7%
2011 9.1% 4.8%
2010 7.6% 3.3%
2009 5.0% 2.9%
2008 9.4% 8.9%
2007 6.6% 4.8%
2006 6.3% 4.3%
2005 6.1% 4.1%
2004 3.9% 3.5%
2003 4.7% 3.0%
2002 3.8% 2.9%
2001 3.1% 3.8%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.6 percentage points from 3.7% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 4.7%, the figure has changed by −1.6 percentage points.
  • 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
1965 to 2025 for South Asia
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