Inflation, % per year

2017 2018 2019

Central Asia 9.2 8.2 7.5
Armenia 1.0 2.5 1.4
Azerbaijan 12.9 2.3 2.6
Georgia 6.0 2.6 4.9
Kazakhstan 7.4 6.0 5.3
Kyrgyz Republic 3.2 1.5 1.1
Tajikistan 6.7 5.4 8.0
Turkmenistan 8.0 13.2 13.4
Uzbekistan 13.7 17.5 14.6

East Asia 1.6 2.0 2.6

Hong Kong, China 1.5 2.4 2.9
Mongolia 4.3 6.8 7.3
People's Republic of China 1.6 2.1 2.9
Republic of Korea 1.9 1.5 0.4
Taipei,China 0.6 1.3 0.6

South Asia 3.9 3.7 4.9

Afghanistan 5.0 0.6 2.3
Bangladesh 5.4 5.8 5.5
Bhutan 4.3 3.7 2.8
India 3.6 3.4 4.7
Maldives 2.8 -0.1 0.2
Nepal 4.5 4.2 4.6
Pakistan 4.8 4.7 6.8
Sri Lanka 6.6 4.3 4.3

Southeast Asia 2.8 2.6 2.1

Brunei Darussalam -0.2 1.0 -0.4
Cambodia 2.9 2.5 1.9
Indonesia 3.8 3.2 2.8
Lao People’s Dem. Rep. 0.8 2.0 3.3
Malaysia 3.8 1.0 0.7
Myanmar 4.0 5.9 8.6
Philippines 2.9 5.2 2.5
Singapore 0.6 0.4 0.6
Thailand 0.7 1.1 0.7
Timor-Leste 0.5 2.3 0.9
 Viet Nam 3.5 3.5 2.8

The Pacific 4.5 4.3 3.0

Cook Islands -0.1 0.1 0.8
Federated States of Micronesia 0.1 1.4 1.0
Fiji 3.3 4.1 1.8
Kiribati 0.4 2.1 -1.8
Marshall Islands 0.0 0.8 0.1
Nauru 5.1 0.5 3.9
Niue 5.0 10.1 ...
Palau 0.9 2.0 0.6
Papua New Guinea 5.4 4.7 3.6
Samoa 1.3 3.6 2.2
Solomon Islands 0.5 3.5 1.6
Tonga 7.2 7.0 4.1
Tuvalu 4.4 1.8 3.3
Vanuatu 3.1 2.3 2.4

Developing Asia 2.2 2.5 2.9

Developing Asia excluding the NIEs 2.3 2.6 3.3

Note: Newly indiustrialized economies are Hong Kong, China; Korea, Republic of; Singapore; and Taipei,China.

Data on inflation rates are period averages. The inflation rates presented are based on consumer price indexes. The consumer
of the following economies are for a given city or group of consumers only: in Cambodia for Phnom Penh, in the Marshall Islan
and in Solomon Islands for Honiara.
2020 2021
7.6 6.3
2.8 2.2
2.5 3.5
4.5 3.0
6.0 5.7
3.5 3.0
9.0 8.0
13.0 8.0
13.0 10.0

3.2 1.8
2.0 2.5
6.6 7.9
3.6 1.9
0.9 1.3
0.4 0.8

4.1 4.4
2.3 3.5
5.6 5.5
3.8 4.0
3.0 3.8
1.0 1.2
6.0 5.5
11.5 8.3
5.0 4.8

1.9 2.2
-0.2 0.1
2.1 1.8
3.0 2.8
4.0 4.5
1.0 1.3
7.5 7.5
2.2 2.4
0.7 1.3
-0.9 0.4
1.3 1.8
 3.3 3.5

2.7 3.8
1.5 1.7
0.5 1.0
1.5 3.5
1.0 1.1
0.3 0.5
2.8 2.3
... ...
0.4 0.8
3.3 4.4
2.0 2.5
2.0 2.3
1.3 2.2
3.5 3.5
1.5 2.0

3.2 2.3
3.6 2.5

ce indexes. The consumer price indexes

Penh, in the Marshall Islands for Majuro,