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Benin: Inflation

Percent · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · infl

2025
1.10%percent
Change on 2024
−0.1 pointsfrom 1.17%
Average, 2016–2025
1.61%10 years
Record high and low
38.5% (1994)low −34.4% (1975)

Inflation

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20312.00Forecast
20302.00Forecast
20292.00Forecast
20282.00Forecast
20272.00Forecast
20262.00Forecast
20251.10
20241.17
20232.73
20221.35
20215.92
20203.02
2019-0.933
20180.83
20171.77
2016-0.85

Sources

  • World Bank (inflation)1970–2024
  • Central Bank of West African States1972–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1981–2025
  • Franc Zone1991–2019
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1992–2021
  • Clio Infra1993–2010
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1993–2025
  • World Development Indicators1993–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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