China's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) was 0.06% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 1.38 percentage points from 1.44% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 0.06% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 2.42% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 1.44% | 2015 |
| Highest | 24.26% | 1994 |
| Lowest | -1.4% | 1999 |
| Average since 2016 | 1.45% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 7.23% | 1987 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, China's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) fell 0.16 percentage points on 2024 (from 0.22% to 0.06%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.8 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.03 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 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 11.58 percentage points in 1988 and the biggest yearly fall was 15.19 percentage points in 1990. 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 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.25 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 54% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, China had the 158th 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| China | 0.06% | 2025 |
| World | 3.04% | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 2.02% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 3.26% | 2025 |
Closest to China in the 2025 ranking
- Switzerland — 154th of 169: 0.15%
- Cyprus — 155th of 169: 0.13%
- Côte d'Ivoire — 156th of 169: 0.13%
- Costa Rica — 158th of 169: -0.07%
- Thailand — 159th of 169: -0.13%
- Bahrain — 160th of 169: -0.14%
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 39 values
| Year | Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.0596 |
| 2024 | 0.2181 |
| 2023 | 0.2348 |
| 2022 | 1.97 |
| 2021 | 0.981 |
| 2020 | 2.42 |
| 2019 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 2.07 |
| 2017 | 1.59 |
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2015 |
Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Australia — 2.87% (2025)
- Brunei Darussalam — -0.3% (2025)
- Cambodia — 2.35% (2025)
- Fiji — -1.38% (2025)
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 1.44% (2025)
- Indonesia — 1.91% (2025)
- Japan — 3.17% (2025)
- Kiribati — 6.51% (2025)
- Korea, Rep. — 2.12% (2025)
- Lao PDR — 7.74% (2025)
More financial sector data for China
- GDP deflator (base year varies by country) — 104.18 (2025)
- DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$) — US$7.19 (2025)
- Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) — US$7.19 (2025)
- Inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) — -0.92% (2025)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU) — 353.25 trillion (2024)
- Net foreign assets (current LCU) — 30.27 trillion (2024)
- Monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) — 194.31% (2024)
- Broad money (current LCU) — 306.91 trillion (2024)
- Broad money (% of GDP) — 227.67% (2024)
- Broad money to total reserves ratio
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is China's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth)?
- 0.06% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1987?
- It is down 7.17 percentage points from 7.23% in 1987. The highest value was 24.26% in 1994 and the lowest -1.4% in 1999.
- How does China rank?
- 158th highest of 169 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) unusual for China?
- In 2025, China's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) fell 0.16 percentage points on 2024 (from 0.22% to 0.06%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.8 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.03 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 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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