| Afghanistan |
NA% |
| Albania |
6% (2002 est.) |
| Algeria |
3% (2002 est.) |
| American Samoa |
NA% |
| Andorra |
4.3% (2000) |
| Angola |
106% (2002 est.) |
| Anguilla |
2.3% |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
0.4% (2000 est.) |
| Argentina |
41% (2002, yearend) |
| Armenia |
1.1% (2002 est.) |
| Aruba |
3.2% (2002 est.) |
| Australia |
2.8% (2002 est.) |
| Austria |
1.8% (2002 est.) |
| Azerbaijan |
2.6% (2002 est.) |
| Bahamas, The |
1.8% (2001 est.) |
| Bahrain |
0.5% (2002 est.) |
| Bangladesh |
3.1% (2002 est.) |
| Barbados |
-0.6% (2002 est.) |
| Belarus |
42.8% (2002 est.) |
| Belgium |
1.7% (2002 est.) |
| Belize |
1.9% (2002 est.) |
| Benin |
3.3% (2002 est.) |
| Bermuda |
2.3% (July 2002) |
| Bhutan |
3% (2002 est.) |
| Bolivia |
2% (2001 est.) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
3.5% (2002 est.) |
| Botswana |
8.1% (2002 est.) |
| Brazil |
8.3% (2002) |
| British Virgin Islands |
2.5% (2002) |
| Brunei |
-2% (2002 est.) |
| Bulgaria |
5.9% (2002 est.) |
| Burkina Faso |
3.5% (2001 est.) |
| Burma |
53.7% (2002 est.) |
| Burundi |
12% (2002 est.) |
| Cambodia |
3.3% (2002 est.) |
| Cameroon |
4.5% (2002 est.) |
| Canada |
2.2% (2002 est.) |
| Cape Verde |
3% (2002) |
| Cayman Islands |
2.8% (2002) |
| Central African Republic |
3.6% (2001 est.) |
| Chad |
6% (2002 est.) |
| Chile |
2.5% (2002 est.) |
| China |
-0.8% (2002 est.) |
| Christmas Island |
NA% |
| Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
NA% |
| Colombia |
6.2% (2002 est.) |
| Comoros |
3.5% (2001 est.) |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of the |
16% (2002 est.) |
| Congo, Republic of the |
4% (2002 est.) |
| Cook Islands |
3.2% (2000 est.) |
| Costa Rica |
9.1% (2002 est.) |
| Cote d'Ivoire |
3.2% (2002 est.) |
| Croatia |
2.2% (2002 est.) |
| Cuba |
7.1% (2002 est.) |
| Cyprus |
Greek Cypriot area: 2.8% (2001 est.); Turkish Cypriot area: 24.5% (2002 est.) |
| Czech Republic |
0.6% (2002 est.) |
| Denmark |
2.3% (2002 est.) |
| Djibouti |
2% (2002 est.) |
| Dominica |
1% (2001 est.) |
| Dominican Republic |
5.3% (2002 est.) |
| East Timor |
NA% |
| Ecuador |
12.5% (2002 est.) |
| Egypt |
4.3% (2002 est.) |
| El Salvador |
3.8% (2001 est.) |
| Equatorial Guinea |
6% (2002 est.) |
| Eritrea |
15% (2001) |
| Estonia |
3.7% (2002 est.) |
| Ethiopia |
4% (2003 est.) |
| Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) |
3.6% (1998) |
| Faroe Islands |
5.1% (1999) |
| Fiji |
2% (2002 est.) |
| Finland |
1.9% (2002 est.) |
| France |
1.8% (2002 est.) |
| French Guiana |
1.5% (2002 est.) |
| French Polynesia |
1.5% |
| Gabon |
2.3% (2002 est.) |
| Gambia, The |
5.5% (2002 est.) |
| Gaza Strip |
2.2% (includes West Bank) (2001 est.) |
| Georgia |
5.2% (2002 est.) |
| Germany |
1.3% (2002 est.) |
| Ghana |
14.5% (2002 est.) |
| Gibraltar |
1.5% (1998) |
| Greece |
3.6% (2002 est.) |
| Greenland |
1.6% (1999 est.) |
| Grenada |
2.8% (2001 est.) |
| Guadeloupe |
NA% |
| Guam |
0% (1999 est.) |
| Guatemala |
8.1% (2002 est.) |
| Guernsey |
3.99% (2000 est.) |
| Guinea |
6% (2002 est.) |
| Guinea-Bissau |
4% (2002 est.) |
| Guyana |
4.7% (2002 est.) |
| Haiti |
11.9% (2001 est.) |
| Honduras |
7.7% (2002 est.) |
| Hong Kong |
3% (2002 est.) |
| Hungary |
5.3% (2002 est.) |
| Iceland |
5.2% (2002 est.) |
| India |
5.4% (2002 est.) |
| Indonesia |
11.9% (2002 est.) |
| Iran |
15.3% (2002 est.) |
| Iraq |
70% (2002 est.) |
| Ireland |
4.6% (2002 est.) |
| Isle of Man |
3.6% (March 2003 est.) |
| Israel |
5.7% (2002 est.) |
| Italy |
2.4% (2002 est.) |
| Jamaica |
7% (2002 est.) |
| Japan |
-0.9% (2002 est.) |
| Jersey |
4.7% (1998) |
| Jordan |
3.3% (2002 est.) |
| Kazakhstan |
6% (2002 est.) |
| Kenya |
1.9% (2002 est.) |
| Kiribati |
2.5% (2001 est.) |
| Korea, North |
NA% |
| Korea, South |
2.8% (2002 est.) |
| Kuwait |
2% (2002 est.) |
| Kyrgyzstan |
2.1% (2002 est.) |
| Laos |
10% (2002 est.) |
| Latvia |
2% (2002 est.) |
| Lebanon |
3.5% (2002 est.) |
| Lesotho |
10% (2002 est.) |
| Liberia |
15% (2002 est.) |
| Libya |
1% (2001 est.) |
| Liechtenstein |
1% (2001) |
| Lithuania |
0.8% (2002 est.) |
| Luxembourg |
1.6% (2002 est.) |
| Macau |
-2.6% (2002 est.) |
| Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of |
1.1% (2002 est.) |
| Madagascar |
7.4% (2001 est.) |
| Malawi |
27.4% (2001 est.) |
| Malaysia |
1.9% (2002 est.) |
| Maldives |
1% (2002 est.) |
| Mali |
4.5% (2002 est.) |
| Malta |
2.4% (2002 est.) |
| Marshall Islands |
2% (2001 est.) |
| Martinique |
3.9% (1990) |
| Mauritania |
3% (2002 est.) |
| Mauritius |
6.4% (2002 est.) |
| Mayotte |
NA% |
| Mexico |
6.4% (2002 est.) |
| Micronesia, Federated States of |
1% (2002 est.) |
| Moldova |
5.5% (2002 est.) |
| Monaco |
NA% |
| Mongolia |
3% (2002 est.) |
| Montserrat |
2.6% (2002 est.) |
| Morocco |
3.6% (2002 est.) |
| Mozambique |
15.2% (2002 est.) |
| Namibia |
8% (2001) |
| Nauru |
-3.6% (1993) |
| Nepal |
2.8% (2001 est.) |
| Netherlands |
3.4% (2002 est.) |
| Netherlands Antilles |
0.4% (2002 est.) |
| New Caledonia |
-0.6% (2000 est.) |
| New Zealand |
2.7% (2002 est.) |
| Nicaragua |
3.7% (2002 est.) |
| Niger |
3% (2002 est.) |
| Nigeria |
14.2% (2002 est.) |
| Niue |
1% (1995) |
| Norfolk Island |
NA% |
| Northern Mariana Islands |
1.2% (1997 est.) |
| Norway |
1.3% (2001 est.) |
| Oman |
-0.5% (2002 est.) |
| Pakistan |
3.9% (2002 est.) |
| Palau |
3.4% (2000 est.) |
| Panama |
1.1% (2001 est.) |
| Papua New Guinea |
9.8% (2002 est.) |
| Paraguay |
10.5% (2002 est.) |
| Peru |
0.2% (2002 est.) |
| Philippines |
3.1% (2002 est.) |
| Pitcairn Islands |
NA% |
| Poland |
1.9% (2002 est.) |
| Portugal |
3.7% (2002 est.) |
| Puerto Rico |
5% (2002 est.) |
| Qatar |
1.9% (2002) |
| Reunion |
NA% |
| Romania |
22.5% (2002 est.) |
| Russia |
15% (2002 est.) |
| Rwanda |
5.5% (2002 est.) |
| Saint Helena |
3.2% (1997 est.) |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis |
1.7% (2001 est.) |
| Saint Lucia |
3% (2001 est.) |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon |
2.1% (1991-96 average) |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
-0.4% (2001 est.) |
| Samoa |
4% (2001 est.) |
| San Marino |
3.3% (2001) |
| Sao Tome and Principe |
9% (2002 est.) |
| Saudi Arabia |
1% (2002 est.) |
| Senegal |
3% (2002 est.) |
| Serbia and Montenegro |
19% (2002 est.) |
| Seychelles |
0.5% (2002 est.) |
| Sierra Leone |
1% (2002 est.) |
| Singapore |
-0.4% (2002 est.) |
| Slovakia |
3.3% (2002 est.) |
| Slovenia |
7.4% (2002 est.) |
| Solomon Islands |
1.8% (2001 est.) |
| Somalia |
over 100% (businesses print their own money) |
| South Africa |
9.9% (2002 est.) |
| Spain |
3% (2002 est.) |
| Sri Lanka |
9.6% (2002 est.) |
| Sudan |
9.2% (2002 est.) |
| Suriname |
17% (2002 est.) |
| Svalbard |
NA% |
| Swaziland |
11.8% (2002 est.) |
| Sweden |
2.2% (2002 est.) |
| Switzerland |
0.5% (2002 est.) |
| Syria |
0.9% (2002 est.) |
| Taiwan |
-0.2% (2002 est.) |
| Tajikistan |
12% (2001 est.) |
| Tanzania |
4.8% (2002 est.) |
| Thailand |
0.6% (2002 est.) |
| Togo |
4% (2002 est.) |
| Tokelau |
NA% |
| Tonga |
8.4% (2001 est.) |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
4.3% (2002 est.) |
| Tunisia |
2.5% (2002 est.) |
| Turkey |
45.2% (2002 est.) |
| Turkmenistan |
5% (2002 est.) |
| Turks and Caicos Islands |
4% (1995) |
| Tuvalu |
5% (2000 est.) |
| Uganda |
0.1% (2002 est.) |
| Ukraine |
-1.2% (2002 est.) |
| United Arab Emirates |
2.8% (2002 est.) |
| United Kingdom |
2.1% (2002 est.) |
| United States |
1.6% (2002) |
| Uruguay |
14.1% (2002 est.) |
| Uzbekistan |
26% (2001 est.) |
| Vanuatu |
3.2% (2001 est.) |
| Venezuela |
31.2% (2002 est.) |
| Vietnam |
3.9% (2002 est.) |
| Virgin Islands |
2% (1992) |
| Wallis and Futuna |
NA% |
| West Bank |
2.2% (includes Gaza Strip) (2001 est.) |
| Western Sahara |
NA% |
| World |
developed countries 1% to 4% typically; developing countries 5% to 60% typically; national inflation rates vary widely in individual cases, from declining prices in Japan to hyperinflation in several Third World countries |
| Yemen |
12.2% (2002 est.) |
| Zambia |
21% (2002 est.) |
| Zimbabwe |
134.5% (2002 est.) |