Sierra Leone — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for Sierra Leone, 2007–2025.
Latest value · 2025
7.49%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · -35.7% since 2007
Inflation for Sierra Leone was 7.49% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 19 years, from 2007 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 47.64% in 2023. The lowest was 4.64% in 2014 (about 1.6× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -2.43% per year.
Sierra Leone ranks 35 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 19%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 3.51%, so Sierra Leone sits above it. It peaked in 2023 and has fallen 84% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 12%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
7.49%
First (2007)
11.65%
Change
-35.7%
Highest
47.64%
in 2023
Lowest
4.64%
in 2014
Average
13.74%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-2.43%
Years of data
19
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.49% |
| 2024 | 28.63% |
| 2023 | 47.64% |
| 2022 | 27.21% |
| 2021 | 11.87% |
| 2020 | 13.45% |
| 2019 | 14.8% |
| 2018 | 16.03% |
| 2017 | 18.22% |
| 2016 | 10.89% |
| 2015 | 6.69% |
| 2014 | 4.64% |
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.