21 indicators · 217 countries · 156,366 observations. Each indicator is read at the most recent year that still has near-complete coverage. Neither rule works alone: child stunting's newest year has six reporters, and internet use is best covered in 1990, when nearly every country reported it as zero.
Inflation, consumer prices (annual %)
read at 2025 · 1 year old
Annual percentage change in the cost of a basket of consumer goods and services.
World median
3.0% per year
Countries reporting
165/ 217
Observations, all years
9.1k
The median is computed across the 165 countries reporting in 2025 — arithmetic over real values, not a published figure. This indicator has no better end — it is reported as context, not as a score.
How the world is spread · 2025
165 countries reporting · each bar is a count of countries, not a value · Pakistan 3.5 % per year
How much of the world was measured
Best year 2011 with 192 of 217 · most recent 2025 with 165. A short bar means the world did not measure, not that the value fell.
· Neither direction is simply better: high inflation erodes wages, but deflation signals a stalling economy. Low and positive is the usual target.
· Basket composition and weighting differ by country, so levels are only loosely comparable.
What we can actually see
Coverage is wildly uneven, and that unevenness is a finding rather than a footnote. Life expectancy is near-universal; the survey-based indicators are not. Sorted by how much of the world reports at all.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Nothing here is interpolated — where a country never reported, it is absent rather than estimated. Browse every country →