Official data
Sri Lanka: inflation by year, 2000–2025
Consumer prices, annual change (%)
Latest year, 2025: -0.5%
Opens a new analysis with this question: Compare inflation since 2000 across Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.
Method
Official annual series (2000–2025), read directly from the source without adjustments and plotted as published.
- Read. Reads series PCPIPCH directly as published by the source.
- Period. Keeps one value per year, 2000 to 2025.
- Chart. Draws each year as a bar around zero.
- The most recent years can be IMF estimates.
- Source
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Dataset
- World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
- Series code
- PCPIPCH
Read from the Belo Lake on November 8, 2026.
Data
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | -0.5 |
| 2024 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 17.4 |
| 2022 | 45.2 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2020 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 4.3 |
| 2017 | 6.6 |
| 2016 | 4 |
| 2015 | 2.2 |
| 2014 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 7.5 |
| 2011 | 6.7 |
| 2010 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 22.4 |
| 2007 | 15.9 |
| 2006 | 9.9 |
| 2005 | 11 |
| 2004 | 9 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2002 | 9.6 |
| 2001 | 14.2 |
| 2000 | 6.2 |