Dominica's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) was 1.97% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 3.5 percentage points from 5.47% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 1.97% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -2.6% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 5.47% | 2015 |
| Highest | 17.96% | 1979 |
| Lowest | -5.96% | 2003 |
| Average since 2016 | 1.51% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 12.67% | 1978 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Dominica's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) fell 0.42 percentage points on 2024 (from 2.38% to 1.97%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.18 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.88 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations below 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 15.05 percentage points in 2001 and the biggest yearly fall was 14.95 percentage points in 1981. 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 1% 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, Dominica had the 137th highest value of the 186 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Dominica | 1.97% | 2025 |
| World | 3.33% | 2025 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 3.39% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 3.31% | 2025 |
Closest to Dominica in the 2025 ranking
- Fiji — 134th of 186: 2%
- Italy — 135th of 186: 1.99%
- Trinidad and Tobago — 136th of 186: 1.99%
- Tuvalu — 138th of 186: 1.82%
- Cabo Verde — 139th of 186: 1.74%
- Denmark — 140th of 186: 1.67%
What this measures
Inflation as measured by the annual growth rate of the GDP implicit deflator shows the rate of price change in the economy as a whole. The GDP implicit deflator is the ratio of GDP in current local currency to GDP in constant local currency.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a median.
All 48 values
| Year | Inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.97 |
| 2024 | 2.38 |
| 2023 | 2.09 |
| 2022 | 0.2618 |
| 2021 | 0.9886 |
| 2020 | -2.6 |
| 2019 | -1.35 |
| 2018 | 8.31 |
| 2017 | -0.5526 |
| 2016 | 3.57 |
| 2015 |
Inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Antigua and Barbuda — 2.98% (2025)
- Argentina — 39.09% (2025)
- Aruba — 4.14% (2024)
- Bahamas, The — 0.29% (2024)
- Barbados — 2.74% (2025)
- Belize — 1.06% (2025)
- Bolivia — 19.91% (2025)
- Brazil — 5.73% (2025)
- Cayman Islands — 2.4% (2024)
- Chile — 6.8% (2025)
More financial sector data for Dominica
- DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$) — US$2.7 (2025)
- Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) — US$2.7 (2025)
- Consumer price index (2010 = 100) — 124.25 (2025)
- Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) — 2.53% (2025)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU) — 985.4 million (2025)
- Net foreign assets (current LCU) — 1.05 billion (2025)
- Broad money (current LCU) — 1.58 billion (2025)
- Broad money to total reserves ratio — 3.55 (2025)
- Claims on central government (annual growth as % of broad money) — -0.59% (2025)
- Claims on private sector (annual growth as % of broad money)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Dominica's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth)?
- 1.97% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1978?
- It is down 10.7 percentage points from 12.67% in 1978. The highest value was 17.96% in 1979 and the lowest -5.96% in 2003.
- How does Dominica rank?
- 137th highest of 186 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) unusual for Dominica?
- In 2025, Dominica's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) fell 0.42 percentage points on 2024 (from 2.38% to 1.97%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.18 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.88 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations below 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 NY.GDP.DEFL.KD.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs); National Accounts data files, Central Banks; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) 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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