Sierra Leone's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) was 7.49% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 0.8 percentage points from 6.69% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 7.49% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 13.45% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 6.69% | 2015 |
| Highest | 47.64% | 2023 |
| Lowest | 4.64% | 2014 |
| Average since 2016 | 19.62% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 11.65% | 2007 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Sierra Leone's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) fell 21.15 percentage points on 2024 (from 28.63% to 7.49%).
Across the 17 yearly changes before that (2008 to 2024), the average change was +1 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 8.28 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.7 standard deviations below that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 20.43 percentage points in 2023 and the biggest yearly fall was 21.15 percentage points in 2025. 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 13% 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, Sierra Leone had the 28th 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Sierra Leone | 7.49% | 2025 |
| World | 3.04% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 3.4% | 2025 |
| Low income | 4.37% | 2025 |
Closest to Sierra Leone in the 2025 ranking
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 19 values
| Year | Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.49 |
| 2024 | 28.63 |
| 2023 | 47.64 |
| 2022 | 27.21 |
| 2021 | 11.87 |
| 2020 | 13.45 |
| 2019 | 14.8 |
| 2018 | 16.03 |
| 2017 | 18.22 |
| 2016 | 10.89 |
| 2015 |
Inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Angola — 20.16% (2025)
- Benin — 1.1% (2025)
- Botswana — 2.66% (2025)
- Burkina Faso — -0.59% (2025)
- Burundi — 34.13% (2025)
- Cabo Verde — 2.34% (2025)
- Cameroon — 3.4% (2025)
- Central African Republic — 1% (2025)
- Chad — -3.91% (2025)
- Comoros — 3.25% (2025)
More financial sector data for Sierra Leone
- Domestic credit to private sector by banks (% of GDP) — 5.48% (2025)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU) — 41.83 billion (2025)
- Net foreign assets (current LCU) — 417.37 million (2025)
- Monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) — 5.5% (2025)
- Broad money (current LCU) — 38.15 billion (2025)
- Broad money (% of GDP) — 22.56% (2025)
- Claims on central government, etc. (% of GDP) — 19.17% (2025)
- Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP) — 5.5% (2025)
- GDP deflator (base year varies by country) — 249 (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Sierra Leone's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth)?
- 7.49% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2007?
- It is down 4.16 percentage points from 11.65% in 2007. The highest value was 47.64% in 2023 and the lowest 4.64% in 2014.
- How does Sierra Leone rank?
- 28th highest of 169 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) unusual for Sierra Leone?
- In 2025, Sierra Leone's inflation, consumer prices (annual % growth) fell 21.15 percentage points on 2024 (from 28.63% to 7.49%). Across the 17 yearly changes before that (2008 to 2024), the average change was +1 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 8.28 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.7 standard deviations below that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
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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