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Papua New Guinea: Inflation

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

2025
4.41%percent
Change on 2024
+3.8 pointsfrom 0.602%
Average, 2016–2025
4.10%10 years
Record high and low
23.2% (1974)low 0.602% (2024)

Inflation

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20314.50Forecast
20304.50Forecast
20294.50Forecast
20284.50Forecast
20274.40Forecast
20265.00Forecast
20254.41
20240.602
20232.30
20225.26
20214.49
20203.37
20193.68
20184.73
20175.43
20166.69

Sources

  • World Bank (inflation)1970–2024
  • WDI (archive)1972–1997
  • Clio Infra1972–2010
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1972–2025
  • World Development Indicators1972–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1981–2025
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Papua New Guinea 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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