Malawi — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for Malawi, 1981–2025.
Latest value · 2025
28.37%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · +140.1% since 1981
Inflation for Malawi was 28.37% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 45 years, from 1981 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 83.33% in 1995. The lowest was 7.41% in 2010 (about 3.8× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 2.01% per year.
Malawi ranks 8 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 4%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 3.51%, so Malawi sits above it. It peaked in 1995 and has fallen 66% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 30%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
28.37%
First (1981)
11.81%
Change
+140.1%
Highest
83.33%
in 1995
Lowest
7.41%
in 2010
Average
19.92%
Annual growth (CAGR)
2.01%
Years of data
45
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 28.37% |
| 2024 | 32.18% |
| 2023 | 28.79% |
| 2022 | 20.95% |
| 2021 | 9.33% |
| 2020 | 8.63% |
| 2019 | 9.37% |
| 2018 | 12.42% |
| 2017 | 11.54% |
| 2016 | 21.71% |
| 2015 | 21.87% |
| 2014 | 23.79% |
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.