Which country in Oceania has the highest inflation?

Kiribati has the highest inflation in Oceania: +6.5% a year (2025). Next come Tonga (+5.6% a year) and Micronesia (+5.4% a year).

Which country in Oceania has the lowest inflation?

Fiji, with −1.4% a year (2025).

What is the typical inflation of a country in Oceania?

The median of the 11 countries in Oceania is +2.9% a year: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

How much consumer prices rose over the year, from the consumer price index. Below zero, prices fell. Source: World Bank, mostly 2025. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Countries in Oceania by inflation

How much consumer prices rose over the year, from the consumer price index. Below zero, prices fell. 11 countries in Oceania, highest first. World Bank, mostly 2025

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Highest

+6.5%

Kiribati

Median country

+2.9%

half above, half below

Lowest

−1.4%

Fiji

Countries in Oceania by inflation, World Bank, mostly 2025
#	Country	% a year	Year	Region
1	Kiribati	+6.5%	2025	Micronesia
2	Tonga	+5.6%	2025	Polynesia
3	Micronesia	+5.4%	2022	Micronesia
4	Papua New Guinea	+4.4%	2025	Melanesia
5	Solomon Islands	+3.4%	2025	Melanesia
6	Australia	+2.9%	2025	Australia and New Zealand
7	New Zealand	+2.8%	2025	Australia and New Zealand
8	Samoa	+2.2%	2025	Polynesia
9	Vanuatu	+0.7%	2025	Melanesia
10	Palau	−0.4%	2025	Micronesia
11	Fiji	−1.4%	2025	Melanesia

No World Bank figure for 2 countries: Marshall Islands, Nauru.

Questions

Which country in Oceania has the highest inflation?: Kiribati has the highest inflation in Oceania: +6.5% a year (2025). Next come Tonga (+5.6% a year) and Micronesia (+5.4% a year).
Which country in Oceania has the lowest inflation?: Fiji, with −1.4% a year (2025).
What is the typical inflation of a country in Oceania?: The median of the 11 countries in Oceania is +2.9% a year: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.
Where do the figures come from?: How much consumer prices rose over the year, from the consumer price index. Below zero, prices fell. Source: World Bank, mostly 2025. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.