Talk:List of countries by inflation rate

This info was got from the CIA World Factbook. Is that using CPI inflation of each country as the source of its data? If so, can we change the title of this article to List of countries by CPI inflation rate or List of countries by rate of CPI inflation. We need to identify that it is CPI, and then change the current title, as the current one is unacceptable, what with there being several other inflation rates (e.g. RPI or RPIX). Without telling us what inflation rates these are, the data is next to useless. 86.174.176.223 (talk) 00:13, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I advice you to put the mention of CPI into the introduction part of the article. No need to rename the article: firstly there are no lists of countries by any other type of inflation, secondly, if such lists appear, they can be added right into this article. Greyhood (talk) 10:50, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Please someone sort this page or better make it alphabetical, which would remove the requirement of sorting it after every update. ankit 20:21, 9 April 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ankitsingh83 (talk • contribs)

Can any economists out there recommend a better source than the CIA World Factbook? Or if they're the gold standard (no pun intended) for inflation data, someone (this is my first comment, I think) should go through and delete all the zeroes in the second decimal place, please. It's misleading; as far as I can tell the CIA rounds its data to the first decimal point, so showing two decimal points makes these numbers look more precise than they are. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.121.18.98 (talk) 13:54, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The source should be IMF or World Bank. CIA world fact book is not a source since they never cite where they get their info from. IMF and World Bank do and report transparently relying on calculations based on direct raw data sets or CPI distortions. Anyways CIA is not an economic institute.--116.71.214.221 (talk) 01:24, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Has anyone noticed that saudi arabia occurs twice on this list with no explanation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.248.1.11 (talk) 16:43, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * That was vandalism or good faith edits. Greyhood (talk) 17:40, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

More data needed
The data for the U.K. and a whole lot of other countries are missing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrystomath (talk • contribs) 12:09, 25 May 2010 (UTC)


 * The link in the citation is much more complete. Problems with this page: It's missing a bunch of countries, some of them pretty significant like the above comment mentions.  The data is out of date in comparison with the cited page.  The rankings are numbered wrong- two way ties occupy two places, not one.  Japan, for instance, should rank fourth, not third, and San Marino is maked with a "-" even though it isn't a tie.  I'm not sure why anyone should fix it, though- it seems like a waste of time to put all that work into just recreating an almost exact copy of the CIA page, only to have it be outdated in a few months.  That's what links are for.  Unless someone wants to write a perl script to harvest the data or something.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.165.145.29 (talk) 13:17, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

I am not the author of the above,& I am in no position to do it, but do agree the list needs update from 2009 to 2012 est at worst. I hate using the Est. anyhow better to use 2011 declared facts as estimates are usually understated by poor performers. Furthermore I wish someone would do it, for 2010 Estimates are just not indicative in 2012 eg: Vietnam was estimated 11.8% when it was actually 20% for 2010, and was 20% for 2011 declared ~ this is important as Vietnam must be now be in the worst few, but shows here as #203-205 when #220 Eritrea equal is now likely warranted?--Robbygay (talk) 01:57, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

List is not complete
List is grossly incomplete. And there is no template on it too. Furthermore, there are entries on the list which are not states as per UN recognized nations. --119.153.10.15 (talk) 20:06, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't think it matters whether or not they're recognized nations per the UN; the important thing is that they're nations and they have their own inflation rate. For example, South Korea and North Korea don't recognize each other as states, but they're still countries.
 * As for the incompleteness, there are 224 countries on the CIA Factbook list, but that would take a lot of space, making the page slow loading. I agree, though, the list should be longer, but I'm not sure how much longer. I'll try to find Wikipedia guidelines on this stuff.
 * I'm updating the list soon (hopefully today), but I won't increase the size until I find guidelines on it. --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 19:15, 30 October 2010 (UTC)


 * It seems you are not familiar with wikipedia rules. On List of countries articles, only UN recognized states are ranked and those not recognized might be indicated but are left out of ranking. As for expansion all list class articles contain full set of UN recognized states. --116.71.214.221 (talk) 01:19, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Entire article needs serious help, by anyone with time to lend a hand
I found three errors (one incorrect CPI-inflation-rate figure for Turkey and two countries totally omitted from the list). I've no doubt there are more errors.

More importantly, although there is plenty of historical data available, in prior versions of this wikipedia-page, and also in web.archive.org cached-versions of the CIA world factbook, none of that is reflected in the table. All we see is the 'latest' info ... and that is full of typos! 74.192.84.101 (talk) 19:50, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Entire article needs serious help, by somebody with financial or monetary policy expertise, and possibly a PHP programmer
For the ambitious, once the outright errors are fixed, and the historical CIA-info is added, it would be additionally useful to include IMF / WorldBank / UN / RPIX / similar measurements, for compare-and-contrast purposes. The CIA does not cite sources (by its nature), and CPI is not necessarily the best way to estimate inflation.

Finally, if anybody wants to *really* solve the problem of typo-errors and errors-of-omission in this wikipedia article, perhaps a bot which scrapes the CIA website periodically, and formats the info into wiki-table format, would be more appropriate than the current approach of hand-editing? I'd be happy to help with this effort, if somebody else will point me in the right direction -- add a note to my talk page. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 17:14, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Proposal for name change to: List of Countries by Consumer Price Index
I am proposing to change this articles name for two reasons. First, there are other measures of inflation outside of consumer price index (such as the producer price index, however this article only covers the consumer price index, and as such is misleading and does not provide full encyclopedic coverage. Second, not all countries are experiencing inflation. As evidenced by this list, some countries are suffering deflation. While this is a minor issue, the title does not reflect this, and as such should preferably be changed. Thank you. --FactualCollector7d1 (talk) 15:14, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Information source
Shouldn't this use information from the IMF or the World Bank instead of the CIA World Factbook? Hegsareta (talk) 21:35, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Alphabetical order
As @Ankitsingh83 mentioned (without creating a new discussion section), I also think that we should have an alphabetical order in this article. This table is sortable so any reader could easily sort it by the inflation rate. The current sorting creates the following problems:
 * it's usually needed to move a given entry after update
 * when moving there's a risk that something might break e.g. the data might become incorrect or the table formatting might break
 * it's difficult to find a given country, especially when editing Grillofrances (talk) 06:05, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

More than countries
What do you think about including the following, just for comparison? * USD * BTC * gold * DJIA Grillofrances (talk) 06:39, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
 * some currencies, especially Euro (the average inflation in the Eurozone)
 * some international organizations e.g. EU, OECD, ASEAN, OPEC
 * first-level administrative country subdivisions being in the top 10 in the World by population or area or GDP or GDP per capita
 * World (the average inflation in the World), measured with: