China — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for China, 1987–2025.
Latest value · 2025
0.06%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · -99.2% since 1987
Inflation for China was 0.06% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 39 years, from 1987 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 24.26% in 1994. The lowest was -1.40% in 1999 (about -23.5× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -11.87% per year.
China ranks 174 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 93%. The median for East Asia & Pacific is 2.21%, so China sits below it. It peaked in 1994 and has fallen 100% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 96%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
0.06%
First (1987)
7.23%
Change
-99.2%
Highest
24.26%
in 1994
Lowest
-1.40%
in 1999
Average
4.42%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-11.87%
Years of data
39
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.06% |
| 2024 | 0.22% |
| 2023 | 0.23% |
| 2022 | 1.97% |
| 2021 | 0.98% |
| 2020 | 2.42% |
| 2019 | 2.9% |
| 2018 | 2.07% |
| 2017 | 1.59% |
| 2016 | 2% |
| 2015 | 1.44% |
| 2014 | 1.92% |
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.