Burundi — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for Burundi, 1966–2025.
Latest value · 2025
34.13%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · +669.3% since 1966
Inflation for Burundi was 34.13% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 60 years, from 1966 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 36.54% in 1979. The lowest was -2.81% in 2018 (about -12.1× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 3.52% per year.
Burundi ranks 6 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 3%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 3.51%, so Burundi sits above it. It peaked in 1979 and has fallen 7% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 516%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
34.13%
First (1966)
4.44%
Change
+669.3%
Highest
36.54%
in 1979
Lowest
-2.81%
in 2018
Average
10.60%
Annual growth (CAGR)
3.52%
Years of data
60
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 34.13% |
| 2024 | 20.21% |
| 2023 | 26.94% |
| 2022 | 18.8% |
| 2021 | 8.4% |
| 2020 | 7.32% |
| 2019 | -0.69% |
| 2018 | -2.81% |
| 2017 | 16.05% |
| 2016 | 5.56% |
| 2015 | 5.54% |
| 2014 | 4.41% |
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.