Where does money hold its value best?
Sri Lanka leads on inflation at -4.8%; Iraq is last of the 15 shown at 0.3%.
Inflation is the cost nobody quotes you. A salary, a pension or a savings balance that looks fine at today's prices is worth less every year by this figure, and the spread across the countries on this site runs from near zero to well over thirty percent.
The figure is the World Bank's latest annual consumer-price change. It says what happened last year, not what will happen next: a projection at this rate is flat by construction, and the tool that uses it says so on every response.
Countries are ranked lowest first because that is the question a saver asks. A very low or negative figure is not automatically good news — it can mean a weak economy — so read it beside the real interest rate the tool computes.
| # | Country | Inflation | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | -4.8% | 2025 |
| 2 | 🇳🇪 Niger | -4.5% | 2025 |
| 3 | 🇹🇩 Chad | -3.9% | 2025 |
| 4 | 🇫🇯 Fiji | -1.4% | 2025 |
| 5 | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | -0.6% | 2025 |
| 6 | 🇩🇯 Djibouti | -0.3% | 2025 |
| 7 | 🇵🇦 Panama | -0.2% | 2025 |
| 8 | 🇹🇭 Thailand | -0.1% | 2025 |
| 9 | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | -0.1% | 2025 |
| 10 | 🇨🇳 China | 0.1% | 2025 |
| 11 | 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast | 0.1% | 2025 |
| 12 | 🇨🇾 Cyprus | 0.1% | 2025 |
| 13 | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | 0.1% | 2025 |
| 14 | 🇸🇻 El Salvador | 0.3% | 2025 |
| 15 | 🇮🇶 Iraq | 0.3% | 2025 |
How this is worked out: Consumer-price inflation, annual %, from World Bank World Development Indicators (FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG), newest year per country, lowest first, across the 41-country spine. Refreshed 2026-09-07. Estimates for comparison, not advice.
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