Sao Tome and Principe — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for Sao Tome and Principe, 1997–2025.
Latest value · 2025
11.05%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · -69.2% since 1997
Inflation for Sao Tome and Principe was 11.05% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 29 years, from 1997 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 50.49% in 1998. The lowest was 5.25% in 2015 (about 2.1× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -4.11% per year.
Sao Tome and Principe ranks 21 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 11%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 3.51%, so Sao Tome and Principe sits above it. It peaked in 1998 and has fallen 78% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 111%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
11.05%
First (1997)
35.82%
Change
-69.2%
Highest
50.49%
in 1998
Lowest
5.25%
in 2015
Average
14.81%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-4.11%
Years of data
29
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 11.05% |
| 2024 | 14.35% |
| 2023 | 21.26% |
| 2022 | 18.01% |
| 2021 | 8.14% |
| 2020 | 9.82% |
| 2019 | 7.72% |
| 2018 | 7.87% |
| 2017 | 5.69% |
| 2016 | 5.43% |
| 2015 | 5.25% |
| 2014 | 7% |
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.