Botswana — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for Botswana, 1975–2025.
Latest value · 2025
2.66%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · -77.8% since 1975
Inflation for Botswana was 2.66% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 51 years, from 1975 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 16.43% in 1981. The lowest was 1.89% in 2020 (about 1.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -2.96% per year.
Botswana ranks 102 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 55%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 3.51%, so Botswana sits below it. It peaked in 1981 and has fallen 84% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 13%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
2.66%
First (1975)
11.97%
Change
-77.8%
Highest
16.43%
in 1981
Lowest
1.89%
in 2020
Average
8.64%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-2.96%
Years of data
51
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.66% |
| 2024 | 2.82% |
| 2023 | 5.07% |
| 2022 | 11.67% |
| 2021 | 7.24% |
| 2020 | 1.89% |
| 2019 | 2.77% |
| 2018 | 3.24% |
| 2017 | 3.31% |
| 2016 | 2.81% |
| 2015 | 3.06% |
| 2014 | 4.4% |
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.