Cabo Verde — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for Cabo Verde, 1984–2025.
Latest value · 2025
2.34%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · -79.2% since 1984
Inflation for Cabo Verde was 2.34% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 42 years, from 1984 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 11.25% in 1984. The lowest was -2.48% in 2000 (about -1.1× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -3.75% per year.
Cabo Verde ranks 117 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 63%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 3.51%, so Cabo Verde sits below it. It peaked in 1984 and has fallen 79% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 1686%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
2.34%
First (1984)
11.25%
Change
-79.2%
Highest
11.25%
in 1984
Lowest
-2.48%
in 2000
Average
3.67%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-3.75%
Years of data
42
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.34% |
| 2024 | 1.05% |
| 2023 | 3.72% |
| 2022 | 7.93% |
| 2021 | 1.86% |
| 2020 | 0.61% |
| 2019 | 1.11% |
| 2018 | 1.26% |
| 2017 | 0.78% |
| 2016 | -1.41% |
| 2015 | 0.13% |
| 2014 | -0.24% |
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.