Zimbabwe's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) was 83.12% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 82.52 percentage points from 0.61% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 83.12% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 585.97% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 0.61% | 2015 |
| Highest | 1,098% | 2024 |
| Lowest | -27.05% | 1998 |
| Average since 2016 | 351.87% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | -2.04% | 1961 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Zimbabwe's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) fell 1,014.4 percentage points on 2024 (from 1,098% to 83.12%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +36.71 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 171.41 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 6.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 494.02 percentage points in 2023 and the biggest yearly fall was 1,014.4 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 25% 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, Zimbabwe had the 3rd 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 83.12% | 2025 |
| World | 3.33% | 2025 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 4.11% | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 4.99% | 2025 |
Closest to Zimbabwe in the 2025 ranking
- Venezuela, RB — 1st of 186: 227.09%
- Sudan — 3rd of 186: 65.91%
- Argentina — 4th of 186: 39.09%
- Türkiye — 5th of 186: 36.43%
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 65 values
| Year | Inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 83.12 |
| 2024 | 1,098 |
| 2023 | 768.48 |
| 2022 | 274.46 |
| 2021 | 108.77 |
| 2020 | 585.97 |
| 2019 | 397.17 |
| 2018 | 3.55 |
| 2017 | 197.45 |
| 2016 | 2.16 |
| 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 Zimbabwe
- GDP deflator (base year varies by country) — 2,193 (2025)
- DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$) — US$31.8 (2025)
- Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) — US$26.6 (2025)
- Net foreign assets (current LCU) — 1.55 billion (2023)
- Net domestic credit (current LCU) — 5.59 billion (2023)
- Broad money (current LCU) — 7.57 billion (2023)
- Broad money (% of GDP) — 11.2% (2023)
- Broad money to total reserves ratio — 34.79 (2023)
- Claims on central government, etc. (% of GDP) — 1.44% (2023)
- Monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Zimbabwe's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth)?
- 83.12% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1961?
- It is up 85.17 percentage points from -2.04% in 1961. The highest value was 1,098% in 2024 and the lowest -27.05% in 1998.
- How does Zimbabwe rank?
- 3rd highest of 186 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) unusual for Zimbabwe?
- In 2025, Zimbabwe's inflation, GDP deflator (annual % growth) fell 1,014.4 percentage points on 2024 (from 1,098% to 83.12%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +36.71 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 171.41 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 6.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
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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