Barbados — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for Barbados, 1967–2025.
Latest value · 2025
0.85%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · -76.7% since 1967
Inflation for Barbados was 0.85% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 56 years, from 1967 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 38.92% in 1974. The lowest was -1.27% in 1998 (about -1.5× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -2.48% per year.
Barbados ranks 156 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 83%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 2.53%, so Barbados sits below it. It peaked in 1974 and has fallen 98% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 176%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
0.85%
First (1967)
3.63%
Change
-76.7%
Highest
38.92%
in 1974
Lowest
-1.27%
in 1998
Average
5.88%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-2.48%
Years of data
56
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.85% |
| 2024 | 1.45% |
| 2023 | 3.19% |
| 2019 | 1.68% |
| 2018 | 3.11% |
| 2017 | 4.66% |
| 2016 | 1.28% |
| 2015 | -1.11% |
| 2014 | 1.77% |
| 2013 | 1.81% |
| 2012 | 4.53% |
| 2011 | 9.43% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services. A negative value means deflation. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG — Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.