Bulgaria's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) was 4.58% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 4.69 percentage points from -0.1% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 4.58% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 1.67% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | -0.1% | 2015 |
| Highest | 1,058% | 1997 |
| Lowest | -1.42% | 2014 |
| Average since 2016 | 4.39% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 2.7% | 1986 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Bulgaria's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) rose 2.13 percentage points on 2024 (from 2.45% to 4.58%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −3.12 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 260.22 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 936.77 percentage points in 1997 and the biggest yearly fall was 1,039.7 percentage points in 1998. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 23% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Bulgaria had the 41st highest value of the 169 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria | 4.58% | 2025 |
| World | 3.04% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 3.75% | 2025 |
| High income | 2.34% | 2025 |
Closest to Bulgaria in the 2025 ranking
- Estonia — 38th of 169: 4.83%
- Uruguay — 39th of 169: 4.65%
- Honduras — 40th of 169: 4.6%
- Papua New Guinea — 42nd of 169: 4.42%
- Hungary — 43rd of 169: 4.41%
- Mozambique — 44th of 169: 4.37%
What this measures
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.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a median.
All 40 values
| Year | Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.58 |
| 2024 | 2.45 |
| 2023 | 9.44 |
| 2022 | 15.33 |
| 2021 | 3.3 |
| 2020 | 1.67 |
| 2019 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 2.81 |
| 2017 | 2.06 |
| 2016 | -0.7986 |
| 2015 |
Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Albania — 2.15% (2025)
- Armenia — 3.31% (2025)
- Austria — 3.53% (2025)
- Azerbaijan — 5.62% (2025)
- Belarus — 6.6% (2025)
- Belgium — 2.47% (2025)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 3.98% (2025)
- Croatia — 3.69% (2025)
- Cyprus — 0.13% (2025)
- Czechia — 2.46% (2025)
More financial sector data for Bulgaria
- Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) — US$1.74 (2025)
- DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$) — US$0.89 (2025)
- GDP deflator (base year varies by country) — 154.2 (2025)
- Inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) — 7.41% (2025)
- Consumer price index (2010 = 100) — 162.5 (2025)
- Inflation, GDP deflator, linked series (annual % growth) — 7.41% (2025)
- GDP deflator, linked series (base year varies by country) — 154.2 (2025)
- Domestic credit to private sector by banks (% of GDP) — 47.03% (2024)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU) — 58.79 billion (2024)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Bulgaria's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth)?
- 4.58% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1986?
- It is up 1.88 percentage points from 2.7% in 1986. The highest value was 1,058% in 1997 and the lowest -1.42% in 2014.
- How does Bulgaria rank?
- 41st highest of 169 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) unusual for Bulgaria?
- In 2025, Bulgaria's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) rose 2.13 percentage points on 2024 (from 2.45% to 4.58%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −3.12 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 260.22 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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