Kosovo's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) was 2.81% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 2.2 percentage points from 0.61% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 2.81% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 1.38% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 0.61% | 2015 |
| Highest | 7.2% | 2022 |
| Lowest | -2.83% | 2009 |
| Average since 2016 | 2.8% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | -2.83% | 2009 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Kosovo's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) rose 0.56 percentage points on 2024 (from 2.25% to 2.81%).
Across the 15 yearly changes before that (2010 to 2024), the average change was +0.34 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.18 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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 9.23 percentage points in 2010 and the biggest yearly fall was 3.17 percentage points in 2013. 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 29% 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, Kosovo had the 112th 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Kosovo | 2.81% | 2025 |
| World | 3.33% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 3.6% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 3.31% | 2025 |
Closest to Kosovo in the 2025 ranking
- Spain — 108th of 186: 2.91%
- Poland — 109th of 186: 2.91%
- Cameroon — 110th of 186: 2.83%
- United States — 112th of 186: 2.8%
- South Africa — 113th of 186: 2.79%
- Greece — 114th of 186: 2.78%
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 17 values
| Year | Inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.81 |
| 2024 | 2.25 |
| 2023 | 4.56 |
| 2022 | 7.2 |
| 2021 | 6.12 |
| 2020 | 1.38 |
| 2019 | 0.963 |
| 2018 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 0.44 |
| 2016 | 0.7793 |
| 2015 |
Inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Albania — 1.45% (2025)
- Andorra — 2.63% (2025)
- Armenia — 3.57% (2025)
- Austria — 3.15% (2025)
- Azerbaijan — 0.57% (2025)
- Belarus — 10.92% (2025)
- Belgium — 2.56% (2025)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 3.01% (2025)
- Bulgaria — 7.41% (2025)
- Channel Islands — 5.75% (2023)
More financial sector data for Kosovo
- Bank liquid reserves to bank assets ratio (%) — 8.84% (2024)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU) — 5.61 billion (2024)
- Net foreign assets (current LCU) — 2.4 billion (2024)
- Broad money (current LCU) — 6.17 billion (2024)
- Consumer price index (2010 = 100) — 151.11 (2025)
- Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) — US$0.89 (2025)
- Claims on central government (annual growth as % of broad money) — -1.23% (2024)
- Claims on other sectors of the domestic economy (annual growth as % of broad money) — 16.34% (2024)
- Claims on private sector (annual growth as % of broad money) — 15.85% (2024)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Kosovo's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth)?
- 2.81% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2009?
- It is up 5.64 percentage points from -2.83% in 2009. The highest value was 7.2% in 2022 and the lowest -2.83% in 2009.
- How does Kosovo rank?
- 112th highest of 186 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) unusual for Kosovo?
- In 2025, Kosovo's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) rose 0.56 percentage points on 2024 (from 2.25% to 2.81%). Across the 15 yearly changes before that (2010 to 2024), the average change was +0.34 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.18 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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 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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