Benin — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for Benin, 1993–2025.
Latest value · 2025
1.10%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · +150.0% since 1993
Inflation for Benin was 1.10% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 33 years, from 1993 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 38.53% in 1994. The lowest was -0.79% in 2016 (about -1.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 2.90% per year.
Benin ranks 148 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 79%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 3.51%, so Benin sits below it. It peaked in 1994 and has fallen 97% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 403%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
1.10%
First (1993)
0.44%
Change
+150.0%
Highest
38.53%
in 1994
Lowest
-0.79%
in 2016
Average
3.76%
Annual growth (CAGR)
2.90%
Years of data
33
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 1.16% |
| 2023 | 2.74% |
| 2022 | 1.35% |
| 2021 | 1.73% |
| 2020 | 3.02% |
| 2019 | 0.73% |
| 2018 | 0.92% |
| 2017 | 0.04% |
| 2016 | -0.79% |
| 2015 | 0.22% |
| 2014 | -0.55% |
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.