India — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for India, 1960–2025.
Latest value · 2025
2.40%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · +34.8% since 1960
Inflation for India was 2.40% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 66 years, from 1960 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 28.60% in 1974. The lowest was -7.63% in 1976 (about -3.2× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.46% per year.
India ranks 112 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 60%. The median for South Asia is 3.56%, so India sits below it. It peaked in 1974 and has fallen 92% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 51%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
2.40%
First (1960)
1.78%
Change
+34.8%
Highest
28.60%
in 1974
Lowest
-7.63%
in 1976
Average
7.23%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.46%
Years of data
66
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.4% |
| 2024 | 4.95% |
| 2023 | 5.65% |
| 2022 | 6.7% |
| 2021 | 5.13% |
| 2020 | 6.62% |
| 2019 | 3.73% |
| 2018 | 3.94% |
| 2017 | 3.33% |
| 2016 | 4.95% |
| 2015 | 4.91% |
| 2014 | 6.67% |
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.