| Afghanistan |
16.3% (2005 est.) |
| Albania |
2.4% (2005 est.) |
| Algeria |
1.9% (2005 est.) |
| American Samoa |
NA% |
| Andorra |
3.4% (2004) |
| Angola |
23% (2005 est.) |
| Anguilla |
5.3% |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
0.9% (2005 est.) |
| Argentina |
9.6% (2005 est.) |
| Armenia |
0.6% (2005 est.) |
| Aruba |
3.4% (2005) |
| Australia |
2.7% (2005 est.) |
| Austria |
2.3% (2005 est.) |
| Azerbaijan |
9.6% (2005 est.) |
| Bahamas, The |
1.2% ( 2004) |
| Bahrain |
2.7% (2005 est.) |
| Bangladesh |
7% (2005 est.) |
| Barbados |
-0.5% (2003 est.) |
| Belarus |
10.3% (2005 est.) |
| Belgium |
2.8% (2005 est.) |
| Belize |
3% (2005 est.) |
| Benin |
3.5% (2005 est.) |
| Bermuda |
2.8% (November 2005) |
| Bhutan |
7% (2005 est.) |
| Bolivia |
5.4% (2005 est.) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
4.4% (2005 est.) |
| Botswana |
8.6% (2005 est.) |
| Brazil |
6.9% (2005 est.) |
| British Virgin Islands |
2% (2005) |
| Brunei |
0.9% (2004) |
| Bulgaria |
5% (2005) |
| Burkina Faso |
6.4% (2005 est.) |
| Burma |
20.2% (2005 est.) |
| Burundi |
16% (2005 est.) |
| Cambodia |
5.8% (2005 est.) |
| Cameroon |
2% (2005 est.) |
| Canada |
2.2% (2005 est.) |
| Cape Verde |
0.4% (2005 est.) |
| Cayman Islands |
4.4% (2004) |
| Central African Republic |
3.6% (2001 est.) |
| Chad |
3% (2005 est.) |
| Chile |
3.1% (2005 est.) |
| China |
1.8% (2005 est.) |
| Colombia |
5% (2005 est.) |
| Comoros |
3% (2005 est.) |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of the |
9% (2004 est.) |
| Congo, Republic of the |
2.2% (2005 est.) |
| Cook Islands |
2.1% (2005 est.) |
| Costa Rica |
13.8% (2005 est.) |
| Cote d'Ivoire |
3.9% (2005 est.) |
| Croatia |
3.3% (2005 est.) |
| Cuba |
7% (2005 est.) |
| Cyprus |
Republic of Cyprus: 2.6% (2005 est.); north Cyprus: 9.1% (2004 est.) |
| Czech Republic |
1.9% (2005 est.) |
| Denmark |
1.8% (2005 est.) |
| Djibouti |
3% (2005 est.) |
| Dominica |
-0.1% (2005 est.) |
| Dominican Republic |
4.2% (2005 est.) |
| East Timor |
1.4% (2005) |
| Ecuador |
2.1% (2005 est.) |
| Egypt |
4.9% (2005 est.) |
| El Salvador |
4.7% (2005 est.) |
| Equatorial Guinea |
5% (2005 est.) |
| Eritrea |
15% (2005 est.) |
| Estonia |
4.1% (2005 est.) |
| Ethiopia |
11.6% (2005 est.) |
| European Union |
2.2% (2005 est.) |
| Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) |
3.6% (1998) |
| Faroe Islands |
5.1% (1999) |
| Fiji |
3% (2005) |
| Finland |
0.9% (2005 est.) |
| France |
1.7% (2005 est.) |
| French Guiana |
1% (2003) |
| French Polynesia |
1.1% (2006 est.) |
| Gabon |
-0.1% (2005 est.) |
| Gambia, The |
8.8% (2005 est.) |
| Gaza Strip |
7% (includes West Bank) (2003) |
| Georgia |
8.2% (2005 est.) |
| Germany |
2% (2005 est.) |
| Ghana |
15.1% (2005 est.) |
| Gibraltar |
1.5% (1998) |
| Greece |
3.5% (2005 est.) |
| Greenland |
1.6% (1999 est.) |
| Grenada |
3% (2005 est.) |
| Guadeloupe |
NA% |
| Guam |
2.5% (2005 est.) |
| Guatemala |
9.1% (2005 est.) |
| Guernsey |
4.9% (2004 est.) |
| Guinea |
25% (2005 est.) |
| Guinea-Bissau |
4% (2002 est.) |
| Guyana |
6.9% (2005 est.) |
| Haiti |
15.7% (2005 est.) |
| Honduras |
8.8% (2005 est.) |
| Hong Kong |
0.9% (2005 est.) |
| Hungary |
3.6% (2005 est.) |
| Iceland |
4% (2005 est.) |
| India |
4.2% (2005 est.) |
| Indonesia |
10.5% (2005 est.) |
| Iran |
13.5% (2005 est.) |
| Iraq |
33% (2005 est.) |
| Ireland |
2.4% (2005 est.) |
| Isle of Man |
2.7% (2003 est.) |
| Israel |
1.3% (2005 est.) |
| Italy |
2% (2005 est.) |
| Jamaica |
15.3% (2005 est.) |
| Japan |
-0.3% (2005 est.) |
| Jersey |
5.3% (2004) |
| Jordan |
4.5% (2005 est.) |
| Kazakhstan |
7.6% (2005 est.) |
| Kenya |
10.3% (2005 est.) |
| Kiribati |
0.5% (2005 est.) |
| Korea, North |
NA% |
| Korea, South |
2.8% (2005 est.) |
| Kuwait |
4.1% (2005 est.) |
| Kyrgyzstan |
5.2% (2005 est.) |
| Laos |
7% (2005 est.) |
| Latvia |
6.8% (2005 est.) |
| Lebanon |
2.4% (2005 est.) |
| Lesotho |
4.7% (2005 est.) |
| Liberia |
15% (2003 est.) |
| Libya |
3.4% (2005 est.) |
| Liechtenstein |
1% (2001) |
| Lithuania |
2.7% (2005) |
| Luxembourg |
2.5% (2005 est.) |
| Macau |
3.8% (2nd quarter, 2005) |
| Macedonia |
0% (2005 est.) |
| Madagascar |
15% (2005 est.) |
| Malawi |
15.4% (2005 est.) |
| Malaysia |
3% (2005 est.) |
| Maldives |
6% (2005 est.) |
| Mali |
4.5% (2002 est.) |
| Malta |
3% (2005 est.) |
| Marshall Islands |
3% (2005 est.) |
| Martinique |
NA |
| Mauritania |
7% (2003 est.) |
| Mauritius |
5% (2005 est.) |
| Mayotte |
NA% |
| Mexico |
4% (2005 est.) |
| Micronesia, Federated States of |
2.2% (2005) |
| Moldova |
11.9% (2005 est.) |
| Monaco |
1.9% (2000) |
| Mongolia |
9.5% (2005 est.) |
| Montenegro |
3.4% (2004) |
| Montserrat |
2.6% (2002 est.) |
| Morocco |
1% (2005 est.) |
| Mozambique |
6.5% (2005 est.) |
| Namibia |
2.3% (2005 est.) |
| Nauru |
-3.6% (1993) |
| Nepal |
7.8% (October 2005 est.) |
| Netherlands |
1.7% (2005 est.) |
| Netherlands Antilles |
2.1% (2003 est.) |
| New Caledonia |
-0.6% (2000 est.) |
| New Zealand |
3% (2005 est.) |
| Nicaragua |
9.6% (2005 est.) |
| Niger |
0.2% (2004 est.) |
| Nigeria |
13.5% (2005 est.) |
| Niue |
4% (2005) |
| Northern Mariana Islands |
-0.8% (2000) |
| Norway |
1.6% (2005 est.) |
| Oman |
1.2% (2005 est.) |
| Pakistan |
9.1% (2005 est.) |
| Palau |
2.7% (2005 est.) |
| Panama |
2.9% (2005 est.) |
| Papua New Guinea |
1.7% (2005 est.) |
| Paraguay |
6.8% (2005 est.) |
| Peru |
1.6% (2005 est.) |
| Philippines |
7.6% (2005 est.) |
| Poland |
2.2% (2005 est.) |
| Portugal |
2.3% (2005 est.) |
| Puerto Rico |
6.5% (2003 est.) |
| Qatar |
8.8% (2005 est.) |
| Reunion |
NA% |
| Romania |
9% (2005) |
| Russia |
12.7% (2005 est.) |
| Rwanda |
8% (2005 est.) |
| Saint Helena |
3.2% (1997 est.) |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis |
8.7% (2005 est.) |
| Saint Lucia |
2.9% (2005 est.) |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon |
2.1% (1991-96 average) |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
1% (2005 est.) |
| Samoa |
3.3% (2005) |
| San Marino |
-1.7% (2001) |
| Sao Tome and Principe |
15.2% (2005 est.) |
| Saudi Arabia |
0.4% (2005 est.) |
| Senegal |
1.7% (2005 est.) |
| Serbia |
15.5% (2005 est.) |
| Seychelles |
1.6% (2005 est.) |
| Sierra Leone |
1% (2002 est.) |
| Singapore |
0.4% (2005 est.) |
| Slovakia |
2.7% (2005 est.) |
| Slovenia |
2.5% (2005 est.) |
| Solomon Islands |
6.6% (2005 est.) |
| Somalia |
NA%; note - businesses print their own money, so inflation rates cannot be easily determined |
| South Africa |
4% (2005 est.) |
| Spain |
3.4% (2005 est.) |
| Sri Lanka |
11.6% (2005 est.) |
| Sudan |
9% (2005 est.) |
| Suriname |
9.5% (2005 est.) |
| Swaziland |
4% (2005 est.) |
| Sweden |
0.5% (2005 est.) |
| Switzerland |
1.2% (2005 est.) |
| Syria |
5% (2005 est.) |
| Taiwan |
2.3% (2005 est.) |
| Tajikistan |
7.1% (2005 est.) |
| Tanzania |
4.3% (2005 est.) |
| Thailand |
4.5% (2005 est.) |
| Togo |
6% (2005 est.) |
| Tokelau |
NA% |
| Tonga |
11.1% (2005 est.) |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
6.9% (2005 est.) |
| Tunisia |
2.1% (2005 est.) |
| Turkey |
8.2% (2005 est.) |
| Turkmenistan |
10.5% (2005 est.) |
| Turks and Caicos Islands |
4% (1995) |
| Tuvalu |
3.7% (2003 est.) |
| Uganda |
8.1% (2005 est.) |
| Ukraine |
13.5% (2005 est.) |
| United Arab Emirates |
10.5% (2005 est.) |
| United Kingdom |
2.1% (2005 est.) |
| United States |
3.2% (2005 est.) |
| Uruguay |
4.7% (2005 est.) |
| Uzbekistan |
6.9% (2005 est.) |
| Vanuatu |
-1.6% (2005 est.) |
| Venezuela |
16% (2005 est.) |
| Vietnam |
8.3% (2005 est.) |
| Virgin Islands |
2.2% (2003) |
| Wallis and Futuna |
2.8% NA% |
| West Bank |
7% (includes Gaza Strip) (2003 est.) |
| Western Sahara |
NA% |
| World |
developed countries 1% to 4% typically; developing countries 5% to 20% typically; national inflation rates vary widely in individual cases, from declining prices in Japan to hyperinflation in one Third World countries (Zimbabwe); inflation rates have declined for most countries for the last several years, held in check by increasing international competition from several low wage countries (2005 est.) |
| Yemen |
11.8% (2005 est.) |
| Zambia |
18.3% (2005 est.) |
| Zimbabwe |
266.8% official data; private sector estimates are much higher (2005 est.) |