Current inflation around the world

Where prices are rising fastest, and slowest

Every country the site tracks, ranked on its own latest reading. The figures are each country's own national measure, so the months differ.

Rising fastest

  1. 🇮🇷IranJuly 202687.9%
  2. 🇦🇷ArgentinaJuly 202633.8%
  3. 🇹🇷TurkeyAugust 202631.5%
  4. 🇲🇼MalawiJuly 202620.9%
  5. 🇭🇹HaitiJune 202618.9%

Rising slowest

  1. 🇨🇷Costa RicaJune 2026-0.3%
  2. 🇰🇼KuwaitJune 20260.0%
  3. 🇸🇪SwedenAugust 20260.3%
  4. 🇹🇹Trinidad and TobagoJune 20260.3%
  5. 🇲🇦MoroccoJune 20260.3%

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Where the inflation rate changed most in the last month

Where the annual rate moved most between a country's last two monthly readings. Both figures cover twelve months, so this is the direction inflation is heading, not the price change in any single month.

  1. 🇧🇴BoliviaMay to June 202612.5% → 9.2%↓ 3.3 pts
  2. 🇰🇼KuwaitMay to June 20262.5% → 0.0%↓ 2.5 pts
  3. 🇫🇯FijiMay to June 20263.9% → 6.1%↑ 2.2 pts
  4. 🇷🇼RwandaJuly to August 202613.8% → 15.9%↑ 2.1 pts
  5. 🇵🇰PakistanJuly to August 20269.2% → 11.2%↑ 1.9 pts

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Current inflation in the major economies

Each country's own national measure, at its latest published date. Offices publish on different schedules, so the dates differ.

The world's largest economies, ranked by how fast prices are rising right now. The second column is the cumulative rise since 2010, which is where the real differences show: the same sixteen years barely moved prices in some of these countries and multiplied them several times over in others.

CountryCurrent inflationSince 2010
🇷🇺RussiaJuly 20266.0%211%
🇮🇳IndiaJuly 20264.4%150%
🇪🇸SpainAugust 20264.3%44%
🇿🇦South AfricaJuly 20264.3%125%
🇧🇷BrazilAugust 20264.2%151%
🇦🇺AustraliaQ2 20263.9%55%
🇺🇸USAAugust 20263.4%54%
🇮🇹ItalyAugust 20263.3%38%
🇲🇽MexicoAugust 20263.3%100%
🇪🇺EU AverageAugust 20263.2%51%
🇮🇩IndonesiaAugust 20263.2%87%
🇳🇱NetherlandsJuly 20263.2%55%
🇰🇷South KoreaAugust 20263.1%41%
🇬🇧UKAugust 20263.1%64%
🇨🇦CanadaAugust 20263.0%48%
🇩🇪GermanyAugust 20262.9%44%
🇫🇷FranceAugust 20262.4%34%
🇯🇵JapanAugust 20262.0%20%
🇨🇭SwitzerlandAugust 20260.8%7%
🇨🇳ChinaAugust 20260.8%35%

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falling prices under 2% 2 to 4% 4 to 6% 6 to 10% 10% and above

Each figure is the measure that country's own statistics office headlines, so it matches what you will find on its page. Baskets and methods differ between countries, so these are not a perfect like-for-like comparison.

What is inflation?

Inflation is the rate at which prices rise, and with them the amount of money you need to buy the same things. When inflation runs at 3% a year, a basket of shopping that cost £100 last year costs £103 this year. Nothing about the shopping changed. The money simply buys less of it.

Statistics offices measure it by pricing a fixed basket of goods and services every month, from food and fuel to rent and haircuts, and tracking what that basket costs over time. The result is a consumer price index, and the change in that index from one date to another is the inflation between them.

What makes it worth paying attention to is that it compounds. A few percent a year sounds unremarkable, but sustained over a working life it quietly reshapes what a wage or a pension is actually worth. That is what the tables below, and the calculators behind them, are for.

Where the figures come from

Every series is the headline consumer price index published by the country's own statistics office, rebased so that 2015 = 100 and any two dates can be compared directly. UK figures come from the ONS, US figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, EU members from Eurostat and the OECD, and the rest from OECD and IMF republications of each national release.

Most countries report monthly. Australia and New Zealand report quarterly, so their dates are given as quarters. Recent months can be revised by the statistics office after first publication, and the figures here change with them.

Common questions about inflation

Which country has the highest inflation right now?

Of the 118 countries tracked here, Iran has the fastest rising prices, at 87.9% in the year to July 2026. The full ranking is on the inflation by country page.

Which country has the lowest inflation right now?

Costa Rica has the slowest, at -0.3% in the year to June 2026. It is the only one where prices are falling rather than rising.

What is a normal rate of inflation?

Most central banks aim at 2%, and the ones that do not usually aim higher rather than lower. A rate near a country's own target is the thing to look for, which is why each country's page states its target beside its rate rather than leaving the number to speak for itself.

Use this data

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Compare Inflation. “Current inflation around the world.” Figures to August 2026. https://compareinflation.com/

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