Argentina had the highest annual inflation rate of G20 member countries as of April 2024, reaching an annual average of *** percent. The Latin American country has struggled with high inflation over several years. Elsewhere, the inflation rate in Turkey reached almost ** percent, while it was lowest in China at *** percent.

This dataset provides values for INFLATION RATE reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

This dataset provides values for CORE INFLATION RATE reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Of the major developed and emerging economies, China had the lowest inflation rate at *** percent in December 2024. On the other end of the spectrum, the inflation rate in Russia stood at nearly ** percent. The country's inflation rate increased sharply after the country's President, Vladimir Putin, decided to invade Ukraine, declined somewhat in 2023, before increasing slowly again since. The rate of inflation reflects changes in the cost of a specified basket containing a representative selection of goods and services. It is derived from the consumer price index (CPI).

Graph and download economic data for Consumer Price Index: All items: Total: Total for G20 (G20CPALTT01GPM) from Feb 1996 to Feb 2024 about G20, all items, CPI, price index, indexes, and price.

Inflation is generally defined as the continued increase in the average prices of goods and services in a given region. Following the extremely high global inflation experienced in the 1980s and 1990s, global inflation has been relatively stable since the turn of the millennium, usually hovering between three and five percent per year. There was a sharp increase in 2008 due to the global financial crisis now known as the Great Recession, but inflation was fairly stable throughout the 2010s, before the current inflation crisis began in 2021. Recent years Despite the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the global inflation rate fell to 3.26 percent in the pandemic's first year, before rising to 4.66 percent in 2021. This increase came as the impact of supply chain delays began to take more of an effect on consumer prices, before the Russia-Ukraine war exacerbated this further. A series of compounding issues such as rising energy and food prices, fiscal instability in the wake of the pandemic, and consumer insecurity have created a new global recession, and global inflation in 2024 is estimated to have reached 5.76 percent. This is the highest annual increase in inflation since 1996. Venezuela Venezuela is the country with the highest individual inflation rate in the world, forecast at around 200 percent in 2022. While this is figure is over 100 times larger than the global average in most years, it actually marks a decrease in Venezuela's inflation rate, which had peaked at over 65,000 percent in 2018. Between 2016 and 2021, Venezuela experienced hyperinflation due to the government's excessive spending and printing of money in an attempt to curve its already-high inflation rate, and the wave of migrants that left the country resulted in one of the largest refugee crises in recent years. In addition to its economic problems, political instability and foreign sanctions pose further long-term problems for Venezuela. While hyperinflation may be coming to an end, it remains to be seen how much of an impact this will have on the economy, how living standards will change, and how many refugees may return in the coming years.

This dataset provides values for SERVICES INFLATION reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

The novel coronavirus pandemic, or COVID-19, had a severe impact on the global economy, causing a decrease of the G20 countries' gross domestic product (GDP) of all G20 countries except for ***** and ****** in 2020. The rising inflation in 2022 and 2023 also caused slowing economic growth in some countries, but not nearly as heavy as during the COVID-19 pandemic.For more information about the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy, please check out our dedicated topic page.

This dataset provides values for INFLATION RATE MOM reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

The youth unemployment rate of South Africa was over ** percent in 2023, the highest of any G20 country. Italy followed with a youth unemployment rate of ** percent. In contrast, Japan's youth unemployment rate was the lowest at only *** percent. Economic crisis in Argentina At ** percent, youth unemployment in Argentina falls third out of the G20 nations. The Argentinian economy was hit by a recession beginning in 2022, with an average inflation rate of nearly ** percent that year, jumping to over *** percent in 2023. Such staggering inflation has hit Argentinian consumers hard, with the average consumer price index going from nearly *** in 2021 to ***** in 2022, before increasing to nearly ***** in 2023. While youth unemployment has fallen in Argentina since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, factors such as skyrocketing inflation make getting by difficult for many. Inequality in South Africa With a youth unemployment rate of just over ** percent, South Africa stands out from the rest of the G20 nations. Thirty years after the end of Apartheid, South Africa is considered the most unequal country in the world. Using the Gini Index, which measures income inequality with zero representing totally equal distribution and one representing unequal distribution, South Africa has a score of 0.63, higher than any other nation. Poverty and inequality are a major concern for South Africans, with over ** percent of survey respondents expressing worry over the issue in January 2024, a slight decrease from a recent peak of ** percent in August 2023.

The average for 2024 based on 155 countries was 6 percent. The highest value was in Turkey: 58.5 percent and the lowest value was in Afghanistan: -6.6 percent. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2024. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

In the G20 countries, wage growth has mostly occurred in the emerging countries, while it has been mixed in the advanced countries. Between 2021 and 2022, wage growth decreased due to high inflation rates and the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2024, wage growth slighly increased in the advanced countries by 0.9 percent, but increased by 5.9 in the emerging, leading to a G20 average increase by 3.1.

The statistic shows the inflation rate in Australia from 1987 to 2023, with projections up until 2030. The inflation rate is calculated using the price increase of a defined product basket. This product basket contains products and services, on which the average consumer spends money throughout the year. They include expenses for groceries, clothes, rent, power, telecommunications, recreational activities and raw materials (e.g. gas, oil), as well as federal fees and taxes. In 2023, the average inflation rate in Australia was at about 5.62 percent compared to the previous year. Australia's economy Australia has one of the world’s largest economies and is a significant global importer and exporter. It is also labeled as one of the G20 countries, also known as the Group of Twenty, which consists of 20 major economies around the globe. The Australian economy is highly dependent on its mining sector as well as its agricultural sector in order to grow, and it exports the majority of these goods to eastern Asian countries, most prominently China. Large quantities of exports have helped Australia maintain a stable economy and furthered economic expansion, despite being affected by several economic obstacles. Australia’s GDP has seen a significant increase over the past decade, more than doubling its value, and experienced a rather quick recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, which indicates that the country experienced economic growth as well as higher productivity. One of the primary reasons is the further development of the nation’s mining industry coupled with the expansion and success of many Australian mining companies.

This dataset provides values for CORE INFLATION RATE reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates. [Note: Even though Global Development Finance (GDF) is no longer listed in the WDI database name, all external debt and financial flows data continue to be included in WDI. The GDF publication has been renamed International Debt Statistics (IDS), and has its own separate database, as well.

Last Updated:01/28/2025

Data contains Following 20 Countries 'Argentina', 'Australia', 'Brazil', 'China', 'France', 'Germany', 'India', 'Indonesia', 'Italy', 'Japan', 'Korea, Rep.', 'Mexico', 'Netherlands', 'Russian Federation', 'Saudi Arabia', 'Spain', 'Switzerland', 'Turkiye', 'United Kingdom', 'United States'

Dataset contains below Development Indicators 'Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19)', 'Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP)', 'Annual freshwater withdrawals, total (% of internal resources)', 'Births attended by skilled health staff (% of total)', 'Contraceptive prevalence, any method (% of married women ages 15-49)', 'Domestic credit provided by financial sector (% of GDP)', 'Electric power consumption (kWh per capita)', 'Energy use (kg of oil equivalent per capita)', 'Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)', 'External debt stocks, total (DOD, current US$)', 'Fertility rate, total (births per woman)', 'Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$)', 'Forest area (sq. km)', 'GDP (current US$)', 'GDP growth (annual %)', 'GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$)', 'GNI per capita, PPP (current international $)', 'GNI, Atlas method (current US$)', 'GNI, PPP (current international $)', 'Gross capital formation (% of GDP)', 'High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports)', 'Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12-23 months)', 'Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)', 'Income share held by lowest 20%', 'Industry (including construction), value added (% of GDP)', 'Inflation, GDP deflator (annual %)', 'Life expectancy at birth, total (years)', 'Merchandise trade (% of GDP)', 'Military expenditure (% of GDP)', 'Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)', 'Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births)', 'Net barter terms of trade index (2015 = 100)', 'Net migration', 'Net official development assistance and official aid received (current US$)', 'Personal remittances, received (current US$)', 'Population density (people per sq. km of land area)', 'Population growth (annual %)', 'Population, total', 'Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day (2017 PPP) (% of population)', 'Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population)', 'Prevalence of HIV, total (% of population ages 15-49)', 'Prevalence of underweight, weight for age (% of children under 5)', 'Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)', 'Revenue, excluding grants (% of GDP)', 'School enrollment, primary (% gross)', 'School enrollment, primary and secondary (gross), gender parity index (GPI)', 'School enrollment, secondary (% gross)', 'Surface area (sq. km)', 'Tax revenue (% of GDP)', 'Terrestrial and marine protected areas (% of total territorial area)', 'Time required to start a business (days)', 'Total debt service (% of exports of goods, services and primary income)', 'Urban population growth (annual %)

This dataset provides values for INFLATION GDP DEFLATOR ANNUAL PERCENT WB DATA.HTML reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Of the G20 countries, Argentina saw the largest increase of the net minimum wage from January 2023 to January 2024, with wages increasing by almost *** percent. This must be seen in relation with the country's soaring inflation rates. The same can be said of Turkey, where minimum wages almost doubled from 2023 to 2024.

Inflation Rate in Nigeria decreased to 22.22 percent in June from 22.97 percent in May of 2025. This dataset provides - Nigeria Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Central Banks are the central public monetary institution of a country or region, tasked with managing the currency and monetary policy of the state, as well as overseeing the financial system of the area under its supervision. In most of the largest economies of the world, gathered together formally as the Group of 20 (G20), the central bank is an independent institution with legally mandated goals which it must abide by. This means that central banks should, in theory at least, be independent of political control and pursue their mandated goals without being influenced by political concerns, such as pursuing wage growth in order to win votes for the incumbent government. Central banks have mostly been made legally independent since the 1980s, in an effort to allow central bank technocrats to take measures to control inflation, without needing popular political support. With the failures of many central bankers to foresee or prevent the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, however, central banks have come under increasing pressure to incorporate wider concerns into their mandates, with some questioning whether a central bank can ever be truly 'independent'. The goals of central banking For the majority of these central banks, price stability is the goal of their mandates. Price stability is the goal of maintaining price increases to a manageable level which is conducive of stable economic activity. This usually manifests itself as a goal of keeping inflation to around two percent per year. Since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, there has been a widening of some of these central banks' mandates to include financial stability. This action was often taken in reaction to the perception that many central banks became complacent about the growth of the financial sector during the period known as 'the Great Moderation' (1980s-2007), which led to the bank failures and subsequent bailouts of the crisis. Some experts have recently called for central banks to include climate change related goals in their mandates, with an aim to promote 'green central banking' and the growth of a sustainable finance industry. As of 2020 no central bank of the G20 countries has adopted such a goal in their mandates.

This dataset provides values for INFLATION RATE reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.