Inflation in Bangladesh
In the year to July 2026, consumer prices in Bangladesh rose 8.3%, down from 9.2% a month earlier. Since January 2010 prices have risen 219.8%, which means ৳100 then buys what ৳319.79 buys now, so the same basket of goods costs 3.2 times what it did.
Cumulative & Yearly Inflation
Inflation in Bangladesh by year
Inflation is the change in that year's average prices against the year before, which is the figure usually quoted. The last two columns take ৳100 in January of that year and show what it is worth in July 2026, the most recent month on record. Only years measured in full are listed, so the year now running appears once it ends.
| Year | Inflation | ৳100 is now | Cumulative inflation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5.7% | 165.12 | 65.1% |
| 2024 | 10.5% | 123.92 | 23.9% |
| 2025 | 8.8% | 112.72 | 12.7% |
Every year from 2011 to 2025
| Year | Inflation | ৳100 is now | Cumulative inflation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11.4% | 286.37 | 186.4% |
| 2012 | 6.2% | 263.74 | 163.7% |
| 2013 | 7.5% | 247.38 | 147.4% |
| 2014 | 7.0% | 230.12 | 130.1% |
| 2015 | 6.2% | 217.01 | 117.0% |
| 2016 | 5.5% | 204.60 | 104.6% |
| 2017 | 5.7% | 194.58 | 94.6% |
| 2018 | 5.5% | 183.77 | 83.8% |
| 2019 | 5.6% | 174.32 | 74.3% |
| 2020 | 5.7% | 165.12 | 65.1% |
| 2021 | 5.5% | 157.22 | 57.2% |
| 2022 | 7.7% | 148.52 | 48.5% |
| 2023 | 9.9% | 136.79 | 36.8% |
| 2024 | 10.5% | 123.92 | 23.9% |
| 2025 | 8.8% | 112.72 | 12.7% |
A short history of inflation in Bangladesh
The Food Price Spike (2010 to 2011)
Bangladeshi inflation peaked at 12.7% in the year to April 2011, driven by the global food price spike of those years rather than by anything domestic. Food accounts for a much larger share of household spending in Bangladesh than in richer countries, so a rise in world grain and edible oil prices moves the Bangladeshi price index far more than it moves a European one.
The same sensitivity explains most of the movement since. A steadily depreciating taka adds to it, as Bangladesh imports fuel, fertiliser and a large share of its wheat and cooking oil, and the country has no formal inflation target, Bangladesh Bank having managed the exchange rate and credit growth instead.
Post-Covid Inflation (2021 to 2023)
In Bangladesh, prices rose 10.5% in the year to May 2023, and further still afterwards for reasons of its own, reaching 11.7% by July 2024. The causes of the post-Covid inflation were global in nature, beginning with the lockdowns: factories and ports closed and the shipping between them fell out of sequence, so goods took longer to make and longer to arrive. Governments had spent heavily supporting household incomes through those closures, so when restrictions lifted there was money waiting to be spent and not enough on the shelves to spend it on. Then in February 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine, disrupting two of the world's largest suppliers of wheat, fertiliser, oil and gas at once, and the cost of everything grown, heated or transported rose with them.
Because the causes were shared, so was the timing: most countries peaked within a few months of one another in late 2022. The major inflation events covers this episode and the others in more detail.
Common questions about inflation in Bangladesh
What is the current inflation rate in Bangladesh?
Prices in Bangladesh rose 8.3% in the year to July 2026. That is down from 9.2% a month earlier.
What would ৳100 in January 2010 be worth today?
৳100.00 in January 2010 has the same buying power as ৳319.79 in July 2026, a rise of 219.8%.
What would ৳100 in January 2020 be worth today?
৳100.00 in January 2020 has the same buying power as ৳165.12 in July 2026, a rise of 65.1%.
What is Bangladesh's inflation target?
Bangladesh targets 5.5%. The latest reading of 8.3% is running 2.8 points above it.
How inflation in Bangladesh is measured
The figures on this page come from the IMF's CPI dataset, with the original data from Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. The series is indexed so that a chosen base year equals 100, and the calculator works out the ratio between any two dates you pick.
The currency shown is the Bangladeshi taka (৳). Coverage runs from January 2010 to July 2026, and updates automatically as each new release is published. Figures for the most recent periods can be revised by the statistics office after first publication.
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Download the full series (CSV) — 199 months, January 2010 to July 2026, with the annual rate for each.