Lesotho — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for Lesotho, 1974–2025.
Latest value · 2025
4.27%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · -68.2% since 1974
Inflation for Lesotho was 4.27% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 49 years, from 1974 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 33.81% in 2002. The lowest was -16.86% in 2009 (about -3.9× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -2.22% per year.
Lesotho ranks 54 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 29%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 3.51%, so Lesotho sits above it. It peaked in 2002 and has fallen 87% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 33%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
4.27%
First (1974)
13.42%
Change
-68.2%
Highest
33.81%
in 2002
Lowest
-16.86%
in 2009
Average
9.04%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-2.22%
Years of data
49
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.27% |
| 2024 | 6.11% |
| 2023 | 6.34% |
| 2022 | 8.27% |
| 2021 | 6.05% |
| 2020 | 4.98% |
| 2019 | 5.19% |
| 2018 | 4.75% |
| 2017 | 4.45% |
| 2016 | 6.6% |
| 2015 | 3.22% |
| 2014 | 5.37% |
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.