Mozambique's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) was -1.02% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 8.08 percentage points from 7.06% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | -1.02% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 3.17% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 7.06% | 2015 |
| Highest | 51.46% | 1995 |
| Lowest | -1.02% | 2025 |
| Average since 2016 | 5.6% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 37.81% | 1992 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Mozambique's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) fell 7.49 percentage points on 2024 (from 6.46% to -1.02%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −1.46 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.77 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.8 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 7.28 percentage points in 1994 and the biggest yearly fall was 38.27 percentage points in 1997. 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 0.65 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 30% 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, Mozambique had the 173rd 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Mozambique | -1.02% | 2025 |
| World | 3.33% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 4.11% | 2025 |
| Low income | 6.28% | 2025 |
Closest to Mozambique in the 2025 ranking
- Costa Rica — 169th of 186: -0.54%
- Thailand — 170th of 186: -0.87%
- China — 171st of 186: -0.92%
- Equatorial Guinea — 173rd of 186: -1.38%
- Niger — 174th of 186: -1.6%
- Singapore — 175th of 186: -1.8%
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 34 values
| Year | Inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | -1.02 |
| 2024 | 6.46 |
| 2023 | 5.1 |
| 2022 | 9.15 |
| 2021 | 4.55 |
| 2020 | 3.17 |
| 2019 | 4.68 |
| 2018 | 3.8 |
| 2017 | 7.98 |
| 2016 | 12.16 |
| 2015 |
Inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Angola — 20.49% (2025)
- Benin — 1.55% (2025)
- Botswana — 3.63% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — 8.84% (2025)
- Burundi — 18.22% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 1.74% (2025)
- Cameroon — 2.83% (2025)
- Central African Republic — 2.34% (2025)
- Chad — -1.96% (2025)
- Comoros — 4.3% (2025)
More financial sector data for Mozambique
- DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$) — US$64.09 (2025)
- Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) — US$63.91 (2024)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU) — 594.45 billion (2025)
- Net foreign assets (current LCU) — 250.99 billion (2025)
- Broad money (current LCU) — 850.7 billion (2025)
- Claims on central government (annual growth as % of broad money) — 5.09% (2025)
- Claims on private sector (annual growth as % of broad money) — 0.68% (2025)
- Broad money to total reserves ratio — 3.17 (2024)
- Broad money (annual % growth) — 9.33% (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Mozambique's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth)?
- -1.02% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1992?
- It is down 38.83 percentage points from 37.81% in 1992. The highest value was 51.46% in 1995 and the lowest -1.02% in 2025.
- How does Mozambique rank?
- 173rd highest of 186 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) unusual for Mozambique?
- In 2025, Mozambique's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) fell 7.49 percentage points on 2024 (from 6.46% to -1.02%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −1.46 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.77 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.8 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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