| Afghanistan |
10.3% (2003) |
| Albania |
3.2% (2004 est.) |
| Algeria |
3.1% (2004 est.) |
| American Samoa |
NA% |
| Andorra |
4.3% (2000) |
| Angola |
43.8% (2004 est.) |
| Anguilla |
2.3% |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
0.4% (2000 est.) |
| Argentina |
6.1% (2004 est.) |
| Armenia |
3.5% (2004 est.) |
| Aruba |
3.2% (2002 est.) |
| Australia |
2.3% (2004 est.) |
| Austria |
1.8% (2004 est.) |
| Azerbaijan |
4.6% (2004 est.) |
| Bahamas, The |
1.2% (year ending September 2004) |
| Bahrain |
2.1% (2004 est.) |
| Bangladesh |
6% (2004 est.) |
| Barbados |
-0.5% (2003 est.) |
| Belarus |
17.4% (2004 est.) |
| Belgium |
1.9% (2004 est.) |
| Belize |
2.9% (2004 est.) |
| Benin |
2.8% (2004 est.) |
| Bermuda |
3.3% (mid-2003 est.) |
| Bhutan |
3% (2002 est.) |
| Bolivia |
4.9% (2004 est.) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
1.1% (2004 est.) |
| Botswana |
7% (2004 est.) |
| Brazil |
7.6% (2004 est.) |
| British Virgin Islands |
2.5% (2003) |
| Brunei |
0.3% (2003 est.) |
| Bulgaria |
6.1% (2004 est.) |
| Burkina Faso |
2.4% (2004 est.) |
| Burma |
17.2% (2004 est.) |
| Burundi |
8.5% (2004 est.) |
| Cambodia |
3.1% (2004 est.) |
| Cameroon |
1% (2004 est.) |
| Canada |
1.9% (2004 est.) |
| Cape Verde |
1.5% (2004 est.) |
| Cayman Islands |
2.8% (2002) |
| Central African Republic |
3.6% (2001 est.) |
| Chad |
8% (2004 est.) |
| Chile |
2.4% (2004 est.) |
| China |
4.1% (2004 est.) |
| Colombia |
5.9% (2004 est.) |
| Comoros |
3.5% (2001 est.) |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of the |
14% (2003 est.) |
| Congo, Republic of the |
1.8% (2004 est.) |
| Cook Islands |
3.2% (2000 est.) |
| Costa Rica |
11.5% (2004 est.) |
| Cote d'Ivoire |
1.4% (2004 est.) |
| Croatia |
2.5% (2004 est.) |
| Cuba |
3.1% (2004 est.) |
| Cyprus |
Republic of Cyprus: 2.4% (2003 est.); north Cyprus: 12.6% (2003 est.) |
| Czech Republic |
3.2% (2004 est.) |
| Denmark |
1.4% (2004 est.) |
| Djibouti |
2% (2002 est.) |
| Dominica |
1% (2001 est.) |
| Dominican Republic |
55% (2004 est.) |
| East Timor |
4% (2003 est.) |
| Ecuador |
2% (2004 est.) |
| Egypt |
9.5% (2004 est.) |
| El Salvador |
5.4% (2004 est.) |
| Equatorial Guinea |
8.5% (2004 est.) |
| Eritrea |
10% (2004 est.) |
| Estonia |
3% (2004 est.) |
| Ethiopia |
2.4% (2004 est.) |
| European Union |
2.1% (2004 est.) |
| Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) |
3.6% (1998) |
| Faroe Islands |
5.1% (1999) |
| Fiji |
1.6% (2002 est.) |
| Finland |
0.7% (2004 est.) |
| France |
2.3% (2004 est.) |
| French Guiana |
1.5% (2002 est.) |
| French Polynesia |
1.5% (2002 est.) |
| Gabon |
1.5% (2004 est.) |
| Gambia, The |
7% (2004 est.) |
| Gaza Strip |
2.2% (includes West Bank) (2001 est.) |
| Georgia |
5.5% (2004 est.) |
| Germany |
1.6% (2004 est.) |
| Ghana |
13% (2004 est.) |
| Gibraltar |
1.5% (1998) |
| Greece |
2.9% (2004 est.) |
| Greenland |
1.6% (1999 est.) |
| Grenada |
2.8% (2001 est.) |
| Guadeloupe |
NA% |
| Guam |
0% (1999 est.) |
| Guatemala |
7.2% (2004 est.) |
| Guernsey |
4.9% (2004 est.) |
| Guinea |
18% (2004 est.) |
| Guinea-Bissau |
4% (2002 est.) |
| Guyana |
4.5% (2004 est.) |
| Haiti |
22% (2004 est.) |
| Honduras |
7% (2004 est.) |
| Hong Kong |
-0.3% (2004 est.) |
| Hungary |
7% (2004 est.) |
| Iceland |
4% (2004 est.) |
| India |
4.2% (2004 est.) |
| Indonesia |
6.1% (2004 est.) |
| Iran |
15.5% (2004 est.) |
| Iraq |
25.4% (2004 est.) |
| Ireland |
2.2% (2004 est.) |
| Isle of Man |
3.6% (March 2003 est.) |
| Israel |
0% (2004 est.) |
| Italy |
2.3% (2004 est.) |
| Jamaica |
12.4% (2004 est.) |
| Japan |
-0.1% (2004 est.) |
| Jersey |
5.3% (2004) |
| Jordan |
3.2% (2004 est.) |
| Kazakhstan |
6.9% (2004 est.) |
| Kenya |
9% (2004 est.) |
| Kiribati |
2.5% (2001 est.) |
| Korea, North |
NA (2003 est.) |
| Korea, South |
3.6% (2004 est.) |
| Kuwait |
2.3% (2004 est.) |
| Kyrgyzstan |
3.2% (2004 est.) |
| Laos |
12.3% (2004 est.) |
| Latvia |
6% (2004 est.) |
| Lebanon |
2% (2004 est.) |
| Lesotho |
5.3% (2004 est.) |
| Liberia |
15% (2003 est.) |
| Libya |
2.9% (2004 est.) |
| Liechtenstein |
1% (2001) |
| Lithuania |
1.1% (2004 est.) |
| Luxembourg |
2.4% (2004 est.) |
| Macau |
2% (3rd quarter, 2004) |
| Macedonia |
0.4% (2004 est.) |
| Madagascar |
7.5% (2004 est.) |
| Malawi |
12% (2004 est.) |
| Malaysia |
1.3% (2004 est.) |
| Maldives |
1% (2002 est.) |
| Mali |
4.5% (2002 est.) |
| Malta |
2.9% (2004 est.) |
| Marshall Islands |
2% (2001 est.) |
| Martinique |
3.9% (1990) |
| Mauritania |
7% (2003 est.) |
| Mauritius |
4.5% (2004 est.) |
| Mayotte |
NA% |
| Mexico |
5.4% (2004 est.) |
| Micronesia, Federated States of |
1% (2002 est.) |
| Moldova |
11.5% (2004 est.) |
| Monaco |
1.9% (2000) |
| Mongolia |
11% (2004 est.) |
| Montserrat |
2.6% (2002 est.) |
| Morocco |
2.1% (2004 est.) |
| Mozambique |
12.8% (2004 est.) |
| Namibia |
4.2% (2004 est.) |
| Nauru |
-3.6% (1993) |
| Nepal |
2.9% (2002 est.) |
| Netherlands |
1.4% (2004 est.) |
| Netherlands Antilles |
2.1% (2003 est.) |
| New Caledonia |
-0.6% (2000 est.) |
| New Zealand |
2.4% (2004 est.) |
| Nicaragua |
9.3% (2004 est.) |
| Niger |
3% (2002 est.) |
| Nigeria |
16.5% (2004 est.) |
| Niue |
1% (1995) |
| Norfolk Island |
NA |
| Northern Mariana Islands |
1.2% (1997 est.) |
| Norway |
1% (2004 est.) |
| Oman |
0.2% (2004 est.) |
| Pakistan |
4.8% (FY03/04 est.) |
| Palau |
3.4% (2000 est.) |
| Panama |
2% (2004 est.) |
| Papua New Guinea |
4.2% (2004 est.) |
| Paraguay |
5.1% (2004 est.) |
| Peru |
3.8% (2004 est.) |
| Philippines |
5.5% (2004 est.) |
| Pitcairn Islands |
NA |
| Poland |
3.4% (2004 est.) |
| Portugal |
2.1% (2004 est.) |
| Puerto Rico |
6.5% (2003 est.) |
| Qatar |
3% (2004 est.) |
| Reunion |
NA% |
| Romania |
9.6% (2004 est.) |
| Russia |
11.5% (2004 est.) |
| Rwanda |
7% (2004 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 |
14% (2004 est.) |
| Saudi Arabia |
0.8% (2004 est.) |
| Senegal |
0.8% (2004 est.) |
| Serbia and Montenegro |
8.8% (2004 est.) |
| Seychelles |
5% (2004 est.) |
| Sierra Leone |
1% (2002 est.) |
| Singapore |
1.7% (2004 est.) |
| Slovakia |
7.5% (2004 est.) |
| Slovenia |
3.3% (2004 est.) |
| Solomon Islands |
10% (2003 est.) |
| Somalia |
note - businesses print their own money, so inflation rates cannot be sensibly determined (2004 est.) |
| South Africa |
4.5% (2004 est.) |
| Spain |
3.2% (2004 est.) |
| Sri Lanka |
5.8% (2004 est.) |
| Sudan |
9% (2004 est.) |
| Suriname |
23% (2003 est.) |
| Swaziland |
5.4% (2004 est.) |
| Sweden |
0.7% (2004 est.) |
| Switzerland |
0.9% (2004 est.) |
| Syria |
2.1% (2004 est.) |
| Taiwan |
1.7% (2004 est.) |
| Tajikistan |
8% (2004 est.) |
| Tanzania |
5.4% (2004 est.) |
| Thailand |
2.8% (2004 est.) |
| Togo |
1% (2004 est.) |
| Tokelau |
NA% |
| Tonga |
10.3% (2002 est.) |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
3.3% (2004 est.) |
| Tunisia |
4.1% (2004 est.) |
| Turkey |
9.3% (2004 est.) |
| Turkmenistan |
9% (2004 est.) |
| Turks and Caicos Islands |
4% (1995) |
| Tuvalu |
5% (2000 est.) |
| Uganda |
3.5% (2004 est.) |
| Ukraine |
12% (2004 est.) |
| United Arab Emirates |
3.2% (2004 est.) |
| United Kingdom |
1.4% (2004 est.) |
| United States |
2.5% (2004 est.) |
| Uruguay |
7.6% (2004 est.) |
| Uzbekistan |
3% (2004 est.) |
| Vanuatu |
3.1% (2003 est.) |
| Venezuela |
22.4% (2004 est.) |
| Vietnam |
9.5% (2004 est.) |
| Virgin Islands |
2.2% (2003) |
| 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 (2004 est.) |
| Yemen |
12.2% (2004 est.) |
| Zambia |
18.3% (2004 est.) |
| Zimbabwe |
133% (2004 est.) |