Consumer prices in Bangladesh rose 9.9% in 2023, 10.5% in 2024 and 8.8% in 2025, according to International Monetary Fund data republished by the World Bank. Between 2016 and 2021 annual inflation had stayed in a narrow band of 5.5–5.7%.
5.5% → 10.5%
Annual consumer price inflation, 2021 to its 2024 peak.
Inflation started rising in 2022 (7.7%). The three years from 2023 to 2025 are the only run of three consecutive years above 8% in the series, which begins in 1987. The 2024 figure is the highest since 2011 (11.4%). Between 2012 and 2021 it never exceeded 7.6%.
Easing in 2025 still leaves prices rising faster than at any point in the 2016–2021 period. Because prices compound, a household buying the same basket of goods in 2025 as in 2022 needed noticeably more income to do so. Lower-income households, which spend a larger share of their budgets on food and fuel, are generally exposed more than others, although this series does not break inflation down by income group.
The data shows the scale and timing of the rise, not its causes; the World Bank series does not attribute it. For policymakers, the question is whether wages and social protection transfers have kept pace with prices, which would need to be checked against wage and household survey data.
Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics, via World Bank WDI (FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG). Annual average change in the consumer price index.