Zambia — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for Zambia, 1986–2025.
Latest value · 2025
13.91%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · -75.1% since 1986
Inflation for Zambia was 13.91% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 40 years, from 1986 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 183.31% in 1993. The lowest was 6.43% in 2011 (about 2.2× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -3.50% per year.
Zambia ranks 15 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 8%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 3.51%, so Zambia sits above it. It peaked in 1993 and has fallen 92% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 38%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
13.91%
First (1986)
55.83%
Change
-75.1%
Highest
183.31%
in 1993
Lowest
6.43%
in 2011
Average
34.70%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-3.50%
Years of data
40
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 13.91% |
| 2024 | 14.99% |
| 2023 | 10.88% |
| 2022 | 10.99% |
| 2021 | 22.02% |
| 2020 | 15.73% |
| 2019 | 9.15% |
| 2018 | 7.49% |
| 2017 | 6.58% |
| 2016 | 17.87% |
| 2015 | 10.11% |
| 2014 | 7.81% |
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.