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Malawi: Inflation

Percent · 1969–2025 · 57 observations · forecasts to 2031 · infl

2025
28.4%percent
Change on 2024
−3.8 pointsfrom 32.2%
Average, 2016–2025
18.0%10 years
Record high and low
83.1% (1995)low 0.884% (1969)

Inflation

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
203116.4Forecast
203017.6Forecast
202918.6Forecast
202820.9Forecast
202722.0Forecast
202624.4Forecast
202528.4
202432.2
202328.8
202221.0
20219.34
20208.63
20199.38
20189.22
201711.5
201621.7

Sources

  • Mitchell1969–2009
  • World Bank (inflation)1970–2024
  • WDI (archive)1981–1996
  • Clio Infra1981–2010
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1981–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1981–2025
  • World Development Indicators1981–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1987–2020
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Malawi documentation (PDF)

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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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