Brazil — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for Brazil, 1981–2025.
Latest value · 2025
5.02%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · -95.1% since 1981
Inflation for Brazil was 5.02% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 45 years, from 1981 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 2947.73% in 1990. The lowest was 3.20% in 1998 (about 1.6× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -6.61% per year.
Brazil ranks 46 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 25%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 2.53%, so Brazil sits above it. It peaked in 1990 and has fallen 100% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 44%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
5.02%
First (1981)
101.73%
Change
-95.1%
Highest
2947.73%
in 1990
Lowest
3.20%
in 1998
Average
261.89%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-6.61%
Years of data
45
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.02% |
| 2024 | 4.37% |
| 2023 | 4.59% |
| 2022 | 9.28% |
| 2021 | 8.3% |
| 2020 | 3.21% |
| 2019 | 3.73% |
| 2018 | 3.66% |
| 2017 | 3.45% |
| 2016 | 8.74% |
| 2015 | 9.03% |
| 2014 | 6.33% |
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.