The table lists the five economies with the highest consumer price inflation in the 2025 World Bank series carried in the Invest Global dataset. The World Bank defines the measure this way: "Inflation as measured by the consumer price index reflects the annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services that may be fixed or changed at specified intervals, such as yearly." The series series metadata is published in the World Bank, metadata glossary: Inflation, consumer prices (annual %).
| Economy | Inflation | Period | Source | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 42.2% | 2025 | World Bank, World Development Indicators | 8 October 2026 |
| Turkey | 34.9% | 2025 | World Bank, World Development Indicators | 8 October 2026 |
| Burundi | 34.1% | 2025 | World Bank, World Development Indicators | 8 October 2026 |
| Haiti | 28.6% | 2025 | World Bank, World Development Indicators | 8 October 2026 |
| Malawi | 28.4% | 2025 | World Bank, World Development Indicators | 8 October 2026 |
The chart data panel lists each value with its source and as-of date. The ranking covers the 168 economies that have a 2025 reading in the dataset. Economies without a reading for that period are absent, and their absence says nothing about their inflation.
The median of the 168 economies is 3.1%. Each economy in the table is above that figure:
The second and third entries, Turkey and Burundi, are close together at 34.9% and 34.1%. The fourth and fifth, Haiti and Malawi, are close together at 28.6% and 28.4%.
The definition above describes an annual percentage change, so each value is one number for the period 2025. It does not show how prices moved month by month within that period, and it does not show readings after the period ended.
The ranking also leaves out every economy without a 2025 reading in the dataset. The count of 168 is a derived claim: the number of country rows with a value for the period, as recorded in the fact pack.
The values come from the World Bank series for World Bank, World Development Indicators, and the sources list at the end gives the retrieval date and link for the series.
The method is simple and reproducible. The ranking uses the World Bank consumer price series in the Invest Global dataset. The ranking uses 2025 readings only, so every entry covers the same period. The median is computed over the same set of 168 economies.
This post describes the data. It makes no statement about the causes of inflation in any listed economy. It also does not suggest that any market is a good or bad place to invest.
Open the profile of any economy in the table to see its other macro indicators with source and as-of date. The data status page shows when the underlying World Bank series was last refreshed.
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Iran has the highest reading at 42.2% for 2025, according to the World Bank consumer price series carried in the Invest Global dataset.
Across the 168 economies with a 2025 reading, the median is 3.1%. It is calculated over the same economies as the ranking.
Five keeps the table readable. The same method can rank any number of economies, and the median in this article is computed over all 168 economies with a 2025 reading.
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