United Arab Emirates — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for United Arab Emirates, 2008–2025.
Latest value · 2025
1.25%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · -89.8% since 2008
Inflation for United Arab Emirates was 1.25% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 18 years, from 2008 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 12.25% in 2008. The lowest was -2.08% in 2020 (about -1.7× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -12.56% per year.
United Arab Emirates ranks 147 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 79%. The median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan is 2.08%, so United Arab Emirates sits below it. It peaked in 2008 and has fallen 90% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 69%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
1.25%
First (2008)
12.25%
Change
-89.8%
Highest
12.25%
in 2008
Lowest
-2.08%
in 2020
Average
2.02%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-12.56%
Years of data
18
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.25% |
| 2024 | 1.66% |
| 2023 | 1.63% |
| 2022 | 5.29% |
| 2021 | 0.18% |
| 2020 | -2.08% |
| 2019 | -1.93% |
| 2018 | 3.07% |
| 2017 | 1.97% |
| 2016 | 1.62% |
| 2015 | 4.07% |
| 2014 | 2.35% |
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.